Black All Around

By Patricia Hubbell, Don Tate
Paperback: $11.95

A young girl discovers all the wonderful and beautiful things around her that are black.

Description

Look high,
look low,
look everywhere …
The wonderful color black is there!

Join a young girl as she discovers all the wonderful things around her that are black.

The letters that live
on each page of a book.
The hole in the ground
that’s a little mole’s nook.
The gleaming paint on a limousine.
The braided hair of a stately queen.

The fun and excitement never stop in this joyous and playful book. So what are you waiting for? Come celebrate Black All Around!

About the Creators

Patricia Hubbell

Patricia Hubbell has been writing for children for almost forty years. She is the author of numerous award-winning picture books, poetry books, and easy readers, and her poems appear in more than two hundred anthologies, textbooks, and magazines. Among her recent, popular books are Bouncing Time (HarperCollins, 2000) and Sidewalk Trip (HarperCollins, 1999). A full-time writer, Hubbell lives in Easton, Connecticut, with her husband. To find out more about Patricia Hubbell, visit her website: www.kidspoet.com.

Don Tate

Don Tate is an award-winning author, and the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. He is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Tate and his family live in Austin, Texas. You can visit him online at dontate.com and follow him on social media at @devas_T.

Paperback

  • ISBN 9781600606434
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2003
  • Trim Size 11 × 8 in
  • Weight 0.3125 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 287
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781584300489
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2003
  • Trim Size 11 × 8.5 × 0.5 in
  • Weight 1.1875 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 286
  • Interests

  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Stories in Verse
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / People & Places / United States / African American
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Imagination & Play
  • Themes African / African American / Black, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Colors, Families, Fathers, Fiction, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Imagination, Poetry, Pride, Realistic Fiction, Similarities and Differences
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 5 - 8
  • Grade Range Grades K - 3
  • Guided Reading I
  • ATOS Book Level 1.9
  • DRA 16
  • Lexile Code AD
  • Lexile Level 410
  • Reading Level Grades 2 - 3
  • SRC 2.4
  • Bebop Reading Emergent
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