Black, White, Just Right!

by Marguerite W Davol (Author) Irene Trivas (Illustrator)

Black, White, Just Right!
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
This simple story celebrates how the differences between one mother and father blend to make the perfect combination in their daughter. As this little family moves through the world, the girl notes some of the ways that her parents are different from each other, and how she is different from both of them. With each difference she lists, she highlights the ways that their individual characteristics join together to make her family. The fact that her mother is African American and her father is white is just one of the many interesting things that make this little girl and her family "just right."
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"The narrator enumerates qualities inherited from her parents—a face that's 'a little dark, a little light, ' somewhere between Mama's 'chestnut brown' and Papa's fair skin; hair that's 'halfway in-between' blond and black...Trivas's freely rendered art portraying this happy family of three is upbeat and attractive. A photo of the author with her 'just-right' grandchildren (also evidently from an interracial family) is included."—Kirkus Reviews

Marguerite W Davol
Marguerite W. Davol taught young children for many years at the Gorse Child Study Center at Mount Holyoke College. She wrote numerous titles including Heart of the Wood, How Snake Got His Hiss, and Papa Alonzo Leatherby. Irene Trivas illustrated more than 100 books for children and worked in the music industry and in advertising.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807507889
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Publication date
September 20, 2019
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV013060 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
JUV039140 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Individuality
Parent and child
Interracial marriage

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