stories that say: you belong here, just as you are ♡
Beautiful Brown Things
A free coloring book for a little time together.
Pick a page, pull up a chair, and color beside your little one. Celebrate brown skin through cozy pictures and words that remind children they belong.
65 US Letter pages, with 44 pictures and 11 excerpts from In My Skin, I Shine. Print at home for personal and household use.
In My Skin, I Shine
Brown is the cinnamon in the kitchen, the soil beneath a tree, and the skin on the little hand turning the page. In this rhyming picture book, a child finds brown in the world around them and celebrates the shade they get to call their own.
Read it aloud together and ask, “What does your brown remind you of?”
For ages 2 to 8. Girl Edition and Boy Edition.
Hi, I’m Anh.
I’m a mom of two and a children’s author. I wrote In My Skin, I Shine because I wanted my daughter and son to open a book, point to the page, and say, “That’s my skin, too.”
So much of the love I feel for my children went into this book. If your little one opens it and feels like a page was written especially for them, I’m glad it found its way from my family to yours.
