Black is Brown is Tan
Illustrator
Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication Year
2002
ISBN
9780060287764
Pages
40 pages
Genre
realism
Format
poetry
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
Grade Level
PK-1
Lexile Measure
540L
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Biracial; Interracial; Transracial; biracial child; interracial family; interracial marriage; transracial family
Main Character
multiple
Race/Ethnicities
African American / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Books to Read Aloud to Children of All Ages, 2003 Poetry and Verse
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, Supplement, 2003
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Choices, 2003 New Edition Of Old Favorites
Poetry Essentials: Selected Books for Children and Teens, 2015 Books for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
stories in rhyme; family life; families; talking about race; different shades of color
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Adoff, Arnold, "Black is Brown is Tan" (2002). Diverse Families. 65.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/65