Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon
Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon
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Magnificent Homespun Brown
A Celebration

Author: Samara Cole Doyon

Narrator: Chrystal Bethell

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/24/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

This exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the eyes of a young mixed-race narrator is a living, breathing, dazzlingly multi-faceted, exuberant masterpiece, firmly grounded in her sense of self-worth and belonging. If Walt Whitman were reborn as a vibrant young woman of color, this is the book he might write. America, we hear you singing! Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.

About Samara Cole Doyon

Samara Cole Doyon is a freelance writer, teacher, wife, and mother as well as a regular contributor at Black Girl in Maine Media. Both a second-generation Haitian American and a deeply rooted Mainer, her poetry has been featured in the poetry column of the Portland Press Herald.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Books on Stereo on February 06, 2020

A joyous celebration of ones culture.......more

Goodreads review by Emily on November 30, 2019

First thing: The illustrations in this picture book are transcendent! Kaylani Juanita is certainly establishing herself as a children's illustrator to know. While I really liked her artwork for last year's When Aidan Became a Brother, I love what she's done here. The warm, autumnal color palette exu......more