Brown Like Me by Noelle Lamperti

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Noelle Lamperti is the author of Brown Like Me. She is grown and now lives in Vermont with her husband and new son Wynn. This book was published by Dingman / McKay; 2nd edition in January 1, 2000. It has 32 pages and suitable for the children from 5-6 years old. The item Weight is 9.1 ounces and the dimensions is 8 x 0.25 x 7.25 inches.[1]

Summary

The story tells about a young brown girl named Noelle Lamperti, and she was five years old when she began identifying with things that were brown. Adopted into a white family in rural Vermont-America's whitest state, it became an important part of her sense of identity that she find herself reflected in people and things that were brown.[2]

Pros

Tiffany as one of the readers liked the book because this book was part of a transracial family through adoption, she was always on the lookout for books to help her beautiful brown brother grow up loving who he was, especially the parts of him that didn't look like Mama and Daddy and Sissy, his skin and hair. Many of the books she'd found had captivating illustrations but were poorly written in forced rhyme that just crawls under her poet's skin and makes her itch. Brown Like Me was different. The illustrations probably wouldn't capture a young child's interest right away, not bright enough, though there were some really cute crayon drawings a little one could appreciate. What she liked most about Brown Like Me was the idea it gave her to teach her brother to love his brown skin by taking him on a color hunt for other things that were brown, and fostering an appreciation for all different shades and hues of beautiful, beautiful brown, from birds to soil to tea and paint and food.[3]

Brown Like Me is a book that will be enjoyed by all children between the ages of two and eight, it is highly recommended for children of color adopted into transracial families or growing up in areas where the majority of others are white.[4]

References

  1. Brown Like Me. amazon.com. Retrieved January 25th, 2021
  2. Brown Like Me. Retrieved January 25th, 2021
  3. Brown Like Me. goodreads.com. Retrieved January 25th, 2021
  4. Brown Like Me. Retrieved January 25th, 2021