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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Amistad
Manufacturer: Amistad
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Amistad
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 01, 2008
Studio: Amistad
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Product Description:
A collection of poems, including "Golden Goodness," "Cranberry Red," and "Biscuit Brown," celebrating individuality and Afro-American identity.
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This was a fun book to read, not just because of the simple but educational poetry, but also because the artwork is engaging. It must have taken Cooper a long time to paint them because of their photo-realistic quality. It's also a great book for young African American children to read in order to see the differences in their culture and why some of their own kin may look completely different than they do. I especially liked the line where a girl claims to be "cranberry red" from her father's Irish ... Read More
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This is a tender and grace-filled book. Very healing. Beautiful illustrations. A blessing for any child of color.
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I've never read anything about the different skin complextion of people, although I have heard people speak of it. I was really impressed with all the poems and I could read them over and over again. And the illustrations were out of this world,just absolutely beautiful. That was a job well done.
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Thomas, J.C. (2008). The Blacker the Berry. New York: Joanna Cotler Books.
9780060253752
The Blacker the Berry features twelve poems written by Joyce Carol Thomas complimenting different shades of skin color and connecting those colors with similes and metaphors of foods--mostly berries.
While the actual content of the picturebook is far from tense, there is building in the sense that the final poem incorporates all of the children previously described.
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Reviewed by Genevieve Chatel (age 8) for Reader Views (11/08)
The theme of this book is that everybody is beautiful no matter what and that it is okay to have different color skin. Each poem is different in its own way and I noticed in this book that the author talked about different colors of black skin, like golden skin or coffee-black skin or cranberry black skin.
In the poem "Skin Deep," the author mentions the line "Put yourself in someone else's skin" and pretend like ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Amistad
Manufacturer: Amistad
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Amistad
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 01, 2008
Studio: Amistad