Brown is a Beautiful Color is a picture book written by Jean Carey Bond and illustrated by Barbara Zuber. The book was first published by Franklin Watts in 1969.[1][2][3]
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| Author | Jean Carey Bond |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Published | 1969 (Franklin Watts) |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0-53101-625-1 |
Plot
editThe book tells the story of a young African American child discovering things around him that are the color brown. [1]
Reception
editBrown is a Beautiful Color received reviews from publications including Kirkus Reviews,[2] The Family Coordinator,[3] Black World/Negro Digest,[4] and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.[5] The book is also cited in early childhood education curriculums, including those from the Education Resources Information Center.[6][7][8][9]
Kirkus Reviews stated in a 1969 review that "While black is the rallying cry, brown is the skin color, here noted as it appears in city and country, in chocolate and cookies and rolls...Coming from two involved, aware Negroes, this surprises by its simplicism; but if it matches your needs, you may want to overlook its shortcomings (trite text, undistinguished drawings) as a picture book too."[2]
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books stated in a 1972 review that "The point of the book is not really that brown is a beautiful color but that A - many objects are brown and B - brown people are beautiful. The illustrations are brisk, vigorous, and often so busily detailed that the tight binding seems to push the pictures together. The rhyming text is not without fault...The idea has merit, the message is worthy, the execution is overextended."[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Bond, Jean Carey (1969). Brown is a Beautiful Color. Franklin Watts. ISBN 978-0531016251. OCLC 11730707.
- ^ a b c "Kirkus Review of Brown is Beautiful Color". Kirkus Reviews. April 10, 1969. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ a b Somerville, Rose M. (April 1971). "Reviewed Work: Brown Is a Beautiful Color by Jean Carey Bond". The Family Coordinator. 20 (2). National Council on Family Relations: 165. doi:10.2307/581913. JSTOR 581913.
- ^ "Books for Children and Young Adults". Black World/Negro Digest. Vol. 21, no. 4. Johnson Publishing Company. February 1972. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "New Titles For Children And Young People" (PDF). The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Vol. 22, no. 11. July–August 1969. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ "A Black Curriculum for Early Childhood Education: Teaching Units" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ "A Black Studies Curriculum for Early Childhood Education: Teaching Onits (Revised Edition)" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ "Art Integration: A Teaching Program for the Mentally Retarded" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ "The American Negro: His History and His Contributions-to Our Culture; A Bibliography Prepared for the Elementary Schools As a Part of the ESEA Title III 'Protect" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center. Retrieved March 17, 2019.