City in All Directions

Literature & Fiction

Adoff, Arnold

Poetry

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children into bed. Children who are all the colors of the race, growing up happy in a house full of love. This is the way it is for them; this is the way they are, but the joy they feel extends to every reader of this book.
Black is brown is tan is a story poem about being, a beautiful true song about a family delighting in each other and in the good things of the earth.

black is brown is tan

Children's Books

HarperColl

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

Black Is Brown Is Tan

Harpercollins

Brilliant watercolors and a rhyming, rhythmical text relate the activities and emotions of a family

Ma Nda La.

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Mandala

Lyrical works by young contemporary poets reflect images of reality, youthful enthusiasm, and vitality

It Is the Poem Singing into Your Eyes; Anthology of New Young Poets.

Teen & Young Adult

Works by modern Afro-American poets express their anger, despair, and hopes, and sense of pride for their race

The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century

Where Wild Willie

A young girl fantasizes about the excitement and loneliness of running away.

Where wild Willie

History & Criticism

Harper&Row

This jazzy paean to city life features original poems about skyscrapers, Sunday concerts in the park, and even honking taxis snarled in traffic jams—all illustrated with exuberant paintings that sway with an infectious rhythm all their own.   1995 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)Best Books of 1995 (SLJ)Notable Children’s Books of 1996 (ALA)

Street Music: City Poems

A richly varied collection of poetry celebrates the sights, sounds, people, and rhythms of the city, from a skyscaper that touches the clouds to a Sunday concert in the park to the noisy honking of horns during a traffic jam.

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Books by Adoff, Arnold

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City in All Directions

black is brown is tan

Black Is Brown Is Tan

Ma Nda La.

Mandala

It Is the Poem Singing into Your Eyes; Anthology of New Young Poets.

The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century

Where wild Willie

Street Music: City Poems

Street Music: City Poems