Age: Kindergarten-3rd grade
Identity: Brown-skinned girl with thick black locks
Identity, author: Iranian American, Palestinian American
Identity, illustrator: African American

A stunning presentation about loving your brown skin amidst words meant to belittle and demean. Several recently published picture books celebrate BIPOC, especially regarding the shade of one's skin. Modir and Kashou provide this celebration within a child-centric plot that celebrates a little girl's love of colors and coloring and how that can extend to the color of her skin. When a playground bully snidely declares that she doesn't like brown and that Zahra is too dark, her parents uplift her with stories of successful brown people in her life and throughout history.