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black is brown is tan

by Arnold Adoff

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A story about an interacial family. Bright beautiful illustrations about family life. The text has interesting layout and flow. ( )
  missrader | Apr 10, 2009 |
Mama has brown skin color. Daddy has white skin. And their two children, have the beautiful colors of both. For an all-American family, full of joy, warmth, and love. It is a good book to teach kids to be happy the way they are.
  claseliteratura | Mar 12, 2009 |
A meaningful story about an interracial family. The book celebrates all races and conveys they despite your color, the normal activities occur day to day. The illustrations are colorful and blended. They are busy and convey much meaning to the story.
  mlcraft | Feb 19, 2009 |
Diversity in classroom. Great for grades k-3. Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives. Drawn with pastals. Fiction.
  sdglenn | Feb 13, 2009 |
This book introduces the idea of mixed couples. This book shows how different people look. It also shows that the couple has a child that is of mixed race. It shows that their family life is the same as everyone elses.
The book has a great story line. it shows the differences in races in the illustrations of the book. The characters were believeable. The last illustration in the book showed the people the same color. I believed that this was important when this book was written because at that time interracial relationships was not done very often in the United States. It was one of the first books to be realeased on this subject.. The theme was great in keeping up with the times.
I really liked this book. I grew up in this time and know the trials and tribulations mixed children had then. This is an important subject in teaching young children, making them realize everyone is alike no matter what color.
In a classroom today ask the children how many of them know people of mixed race. Have the children do a reflection on what they thought of the book. The children could also draw a picture of their families, since each family looks different. ( )
  victoriahaumesser | Mar 29, 2008 |
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0064436446, Paperback)

Originally published in 1973, Black Is Brown Is Tan was the first children's book to feature an interracial family. In this 21st-century version, with new, sunlight-drenched watercolors, Mom is still "a tasty tan and coffee pumpkin pie / with dark brown eyes and almond ears," and Daddy is "light with pinks and tiny tans / dark hair growing on my arms / that darken in the summer sun / brown eyes / big yellow ears." The happy, normal family goes about their day, drinking milk, barbecuing, spending time with grandmas and aunts and uncles, and reading stories. Throughout, they celebrate "all the colors of the race":
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This warm and loving story is just as meaningful today as it was decades ago. Readers from multicultural families, especially, will appreciate this tribute to the diversity of the American family from renowned poet Arnold Adoff (Touch the Poem) and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator, Emily Arnold McCully (Mirette on the High Wire). (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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