Black All Around by Patricia Hubbell

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Within the case of the colour dark now and then being a enormous deal, we are told that black cats are awful good fortune, that light is magnificent, and haziness is fiendish. Black All Around makes a difference thrust back against these messages by celebrating all of the brilliant things in our world that are black through enthusiastic rhyming text. [1]


Summary

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Look high, look low, look everywhere The wonderful color black is there!

Join a young girl as she discovers all the wonderful things around her that are black.

The letters that live on each page of a book. The gap within the ground that's a small mole's nook. The sparkling paint on a limousine. The braided hair of a stately queen. The fun and excitement never stop in this happy and lively book. So what are you holding up for? Come celebrate Dark All Around! [2]

Pros

In this energetic wonderful tribute to the color black, the letters and words in a book, a limousine, a workhorse, insects, a firefighter's boots, obvious calfskin party shoes, piano keys, and more bring a sense of bliss and ponder to a young girl. Patricia Hubbell's perky verses and Wear Tate's colorful craftsmanship celebrate the color black by combining seemingly unrelated objects in charming and creative ways. [3]

This wonderful outlines book celebrates the color black and, in a world where all things white are put on a platform, has the indirect effect of empowering African-American children to embrace who they are and how they see. Replaces negative essences related with black, e.g. "blackmail", "black market", and centers on all of the great things in our world that are black. Our children, ages 3 and 5, list this as one of their favorites. [4] 

The artist does a incredible work in illustrated different settings, providing both daydream and homelike backdrops that join the pictures from the content. The closing pages appear the girl cozy in her bed, with numerous of the previously mentioned things floating through her dreams. [5]

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