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for All the Colors of the Race by Arnold Adoff and John Steptoe
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A collection of free form poems written from the point of view of a biracial child is a celebration of heritage, identity, and individualism. The poems, which can either be read separately or as a continuous narrative, are accompanied by striking brown-tone illustrations. (6-14 years)
CCBC Choices 1982 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1982. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
"A celebration of multiethnicity, Adoff's loose, free-verse poems center on a girl of black-white parentage but extend their theme of tolerance to all races."--Booklist.
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