Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
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Publisher Description
Coretta Scott King 2021 Honoree
A winner of the ILA 2021 Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards in the fiction category.
NCSS 2021 Notable Social Studies Book
Maine Lupine Award Winner
A CBC Recommended Book • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Picture Book of 2020
Kirkus Starred Review
PW Starred Review
School Library Journal Starred Review
Told by a succession of exuberant young narrators, Magnificent Homespun Brown is a story -- a song, a poem, a celebration -- about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin.
With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Browns of all kinds are lauded through a natural lens in this celebration of community and belonging. Gazing out the window at moving water, one child speaks of "Deep, secret brown./ Like the subtly churning river currents/ playfully beckoning me." A page turn later, the same phrase turns inward: "Deep, secret brown... like my eyes." In precise, lyrical poems by debut author Doyon, the "feathery brown" of hemlock shadows seen on a hike becomes "feathery brown... like my lashes." In brown tones, wonderfully inclusive mixed media art by Juanita (When Aidan Became a Brother) portrays scenes of comfort and abundance: families laughing and cuddling; women enjoying bounty; children engaging in leaping, lively play. Plenty of attention is given to the senses out of doors: one girl enjoys a caramel apple with her brother, who uses a wheelchair, while another family smooths "every bump and curve" of "towering summer sandcastles." Throughout, the creators draw the beauty of the natural world a forest, a snowstorm into relationship with the characters until the twined concepts become part of a quilted family tree. A magnificent paean to a varied hue. Ages 5 8.