Beautiful Blackbird is a Coretta Scott King Award winning book about finding true beauty within. All the birds of the forest envy Blackbird's beauty and wish to gain a hint of black to add to their feathers. Blackbird agrees to paint a small token of beautiful blackness on each bird. The book reveals how true beauty comes from within. Blackbird tells the birds, "Color on the outside is not what's on the inside. You don't act like me. You don't eat like me. You don't get down in the groove and move your feet like me."
Beautiful Blackbird is an upbeat and joyful book about he beauty that everyone should look within to find. Ashley Bryan has been writing and illustrating children's books for thirty years. He also won a Coretta Scott King Award for illustration as well as received Coretta Scott King Honor Books.
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