Honeysmoke
A Story of Finding Your Color
$44.79
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2019
Summary
Simone wants a color, one that will show who she is inside and out.
This engaging and beautiful picture book follows a young biracial girl named Simone as she searches for her own place in the world. She wants to find the perfect color to understand her heritage, a color that isn’t brown or pink or black or white.
Eventually, Simone creates a special word to describe the combination of her mom’s dark and her dad’s light skin colors: honeysmoke.
Through simple text, thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250115829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250115825 |
| Author: | Monique Fields, Yesenia Moises |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 424g |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 216mm |
| Audience Age: | 3 |
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Critics Review
“Fields’ extensive experience writing about race and identity translates with beautiful simplicity here for younger readers, and Moises paints Simone with great tenderness… A terrific addition to the WeNeedDiverseBooks canon, where it joins such books as Selina Alko’s I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother and Taye Diggs’ Mixed Me!.” –Booklist
“My daughter, who is also multiracial, was asking about her own color word after reading the book. Monique Fields has multiracial kids herself… and this book serves as a kid-friendly way to start that conversation.” –Geek Dad
“Honeysmoke is so beautiful and true that it made me burst into tears of gratitude for what [Monique Fields] has given to us all. Honeysmoke should be in every library and gathering place of young children.”
–Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance
Monique Fields
Monique Fields is an award-winning journalist. Her essays about race and identity have appeared on air, in print, and online, including NPR’s All Things Considered and Ebony magazine. She is the founder and editor of Honeysmoke.com, a site for parents raising multiracial children, and she is a member of the SCBWI. Monique lives in Alabama with her husband and their two daughters.
Yesenia Moises is a freelance illustrator/designer with a specialty in product design. She is also an Afro Latina and random skill enthusiast. When she’s not making toys for kids, her pastimes include indulging in really silly dating sims and playing with her wildly photogenic dog Divo.
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