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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Ayo looks around his kindergarten class and doesn't see anyone with skin that looks dark brown like his. Does this mean there is something wrong with the way he is? When Ayo asks, he learns there is nothing wrong with his skin color, and that no one color is better or worse than any other. We are all beautiful!"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Ever wonder why your favorite first date outfit hasn't landed you Mr. Right? Feel uncomfortable at job interviews in your trendy new power suit? The problem isn't you-it may be that you aren't showing the world your true colors. David Zyla knows how color can change a woman's mood and even her life. As the Emmy-nominated head costume designer of All My Children and the designer of his own label, he's dressed everyone for success from Susan Lucci...
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Vega and her friend Alex wonder why the pencil in the box is called 'skin color' when it doesn't match either of them. This question leads them on a beautiful journey of exploring the diverse array of skin colors they see in the world. Together, they discover how to bring all of them into their art."--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
14) Glow
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This board book delivers an ode to the beautiful light of African American boys.
16) Ours
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Show young readers how to see themselves and others with confidence and love with this beautiful rhyming board book toddlers and parents alike will love.
18) Chocolate me!
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Overview: The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is. For years before they both achieved acclaim in their respective professions, good friends Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans wanted to collaborate on Chocolate Me!, a book based on experiences of being African American,...
19) Nesting dolls
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Anyiaka is in awe of her gorgeous Gullah Geechee family—she wants to be beautiful like her older sister, Sorie, a great listener like her mom, and a talented artist like her grandma. But sometimes she feels as though she doesn't belong with these amazing women, and a trip to Grandma's art studio confirms just how different she is from the rest of the family.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s,...
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