Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.

A young biracial girl searches for the perfect color word to describe herself.

Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.

"A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls"--

Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too - splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Anna Hibiscus, in this joyful exploration of the new skin of babyhood. A wonderful gift book for new mums and toddlers, all children can see themselves, and...