This revised warm and loving story is just as meaningful today as it was decades ago.
And the chorus rings true as ever: Black is Brown is tan is girl is boy is nose is face is all the colors of the race.
Decades later, Arnold Adoff\'s and Emily Arnold McCully\'s picture book continues to offer a joyous and loving celebration of all the colors of the race, now newly embellished with bright watercolor paintings that depict a contemporary family of the twenty-first century.
For an all-American family, full of joy, warmth, and love, this is the way it is for us / this is the way we are When it was first published in 1973, b lack is Brown is tan featured the first interracial family in children\'s books.
And their two children, the beautiful colors of both.
White-skinned daddy, not the color of milk or snow, but light with pinks and tiny tans.
Brown-skinned mama, the color of chocolate milk and pumpkin pie.
Full color.
Readers from multicultural families will appreciate this tribute to the diversity of the American family.
This revised warm and loving story is just as meaningful today as it was decades ago
