Brown Like Me
Illustrator
Noelle Lamperti; Photographs by Matthew Lamperti and Beth Dingman
Publisher
New Victoria Publishers
Publication Year
1999
ISBN
9781892281036
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A little girl named Noelle tells how she likes to go looking for things that are brown like her.
Grade Level
6-8
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; adopted child; interracial/transracial adoption
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
African American / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Keywords
Vermont; identifying with your race; positive self-image; the color brown
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Lamperti, Noelle, "Brown Like Me" (1999). Diverse Families. 80.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/80