Magnificent Homespun Brown

A Celebration

4 August 2020

Territory Rights — Worldwide excluding Canada.

Samara Cole Doyon (Author), Kaylani Juanita (Illustrated by)

Description

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.

Magnificent Homespun Brown is an exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the eyes of young, mixed raced heroines—a living, breathing, dazzlingly multi-faceted, exuberant masterpiece, firmly grounded in a sense of self-worth and belonging. This is a story—a poem, a song, a celebration—­about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin.

If Walt Whitman were reborn as a young woman of colour, this is the book he might write. 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.

Reviews

"Absolutely lovely." — Jacqueline Woodson, US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

Awards

Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

Hardback

9780884487975

239 x 264 mm • 32 pages

£12.99

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Standalone Ebook

9780884487999

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