Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown - by Xochitl Dixon (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown invites young readers to intentionally seek and celebrate all the wonderfully, marvelously shades of brown God used in the colorful world around them. Through the exploration of regions of the United States-from the Redwood forests in California and the rivers in Tennessee to the Grand Canyon and Florida reefs, from Mukluks in Alaska to Folklorico dancers in Texas, and many more-readers will marvel in the many wonderful colors God made, each a beautiful hue, but especially in the color brown, which He used to make me and you! Designed to help children celebrate diversity and rejoice in their own unique skin tones, Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown combats racism and colorism by teaching that all people God created have intentionally designed skin tones that are different hues of brown, from ivory to mahogany"--

Book Synopsis

A joyously affirming rhyming picture book that follows a young boy on an adventure to find and celebrate all shades of brown--including you and me!--from the author of Different Like Me and What Color Is God's Love?

Everywhere that I go
I'm searching to see
something wonderfully, marvelously
brown--just like me!

From new school desks to freckles and moles, from fresh pastries to cedar canoes, brown is everywhere around us. It's a color that describes the giant California redwoods and the Grand Canyon walls, busy beavers building dams and great horned owls hoo-hooing.

Illustrated by Pura Belpré Honor Award artist Sara Palacios, Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown takes kids on a tour of the U.S. to seek and find all the brilliant and beautiful shades of brown--from ivory to ebony--that God used in creation, including humans! Through the rhythmic text and repeating refrain, children of all races, ages, and abilities will be encouraged to love the skin they're in as they observe how it's reflected in their communities and the world around them.

About the Author

Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon is the picture book author of Different Like Me, What Color Is God's Love?, and Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown. She also encourages readers through her custom designs at Worship Expressed, the ministries of Our Daily Bread, and adult devotionals like Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God's Plan and Pace and the ECPA bestseller God Hears Her. Serving God with her beautifully diverse family and her service dog, Callie, Xochitl loves Jesus, her neighbors, and readers like you!

Sara Palacios is the recipient of the Pura Belpré Honor Award for her work on Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match and has illustrated many picture books for children. Sara earned her BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband.