A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on. Red is a rainbow color. Green sits next to blue. Yellow, orange, violet, indigo, They are rainbow colors, too, but My color is black . . . And there’s no BLACK in rainbows. From the wheels of a bicycle to the robe on Thurgood Marshall's back, Black surrounds our lives. It is a color to simply describe some of our favorite things, but it also evokes a deeper sentiment about the incredible people who helped change the world and a community that continues to grow and thrive. Stunningly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree and Coretta Scott King Award winner Ekua Holmes, Black Is a Rainbow Color is a sweeping celebration told through debut author Angela Joy’s rhythmically captivating and unforgettable words. An ALSC Notable Children's Book 2021 An NCTE 2021 Notable Poetry Book A 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book of the NCSS/CBC A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Washington Post Best Book of 2020 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A 2020 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honoree

When all the colors of the world are stolen, Mooseberry the mouse leads his animal friends in bringing them back, with the special help of Captain Chameleon, who shows them how to fill the Forest with love and light.

Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. ?Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.

Discover what life is like Somewhere Under the Rainbow; a place where happy little bluebirds don't fly and dreams don't always come true; where troubles rarely melt away like lemon drops and the roads are usually long and difficult to travel. This boy to man memoir will take you into a fascinating world of poverty, wealth and experiences like no other memoir has before.

Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. ​Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.

Leonardo is a boy with big dreams. In his heart, he desires a life full of colors. So one day he decides to pursue his dream of a colorful life. He faces the challenges and obstacles of making his dream a reality. Only to discover, at the end of his journey, that all the colors he had longed for had been inside his own heart all along.

Salouwie lives with her abusive alcoholic father, his girlfriend and her son. Nothing has ever come easily to Salouwie having lost her mother at a young age, and later being a witness to the horrific death of her older brother Tim. With the arrival of her Dad's new girlfriend, Salouwie's life becomes utter mayhem. Salouwie she develops a distinct hatred of 'Britannya,' while the trauma of witnessing her brother's demise causes a bizarre protectiveness of 'Joey.' One night Salouwie follows Joey and witnesses a mysterious meeting. Unfortunately she is discovered. All kinds of monsters of the human race are then pushed into her life. Pulled right into the middle, Salouwie fights to protect the life she has always known from something far darker and sinister than she could ever imagine. With her two best friends', Michelle and Tony, Salouwie finds herself in a battle where to lose is to die. Friendship and courage are her weapons, family her enemy and life merely an all consuming darkness, bleak and without colour; a black and white rainbow. This is the ultimate battle of survival, and Salouwie is forced to discover who she really is and what it really means to survive