Pili Mandelbaum

It's normal for children to feel out of place when they feel like they don't look like their parents. That is especially true for children from an interracial family. A little girl doesn't feel pretty because of her hair and her skin color. She wanted to have pale white skin and smooth silky hair like her dad. He explained to the little girl that mommy is the coffee and he's the milk and when they came together, they got milk coffee like her. Still the girl wanted to switch faces with her show more dad. And so her dad took the extra length to make her happy. He put ground coffee beans on his face and flour on hers. He took her around town and show her a new perspective in beauty. He taught her that not many people are happy with what they have. They will never be satisfied until they really love themselves. At the end she learned to accept herself. show less

Anna has a Caucasian father and an African-American mother. She is mixed. She doesn't feel pretty because she doesn't look like her father. Her father tells her she is beautiful but she doesn't believe him. He helps her explore her feelings by putting coffee grounds on his face, and flour on her face, so they can have different skin colors. He teaches her that he is milk, and her mom is coffee, and when you mix them together, you get coffee milk, like Anna. By the end of the book Anna has show more accepted herself and let's her mom know the lesson she has learned. Appropriate for ages 3-6.
(Pierce College Fort Steilacoom Library) show less

Being bi-racial can be confusing for most children. A little girl and father talk about why it's okay to recognize the beauty of being bi-racial and that it's perfectly fine to be you and embrace how you look and be proud of it. It's not only a good book to read to bi-racial children to help them cope but to all children that may not understand why some other children have different skin colors.
age 4-6
resource: pierce college library

This book is about an interracial child wanting to look like her father, She is learning about her Identity and skin color. Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin-colors with her father. Estimated age group 3-5 years