Beautiful Blackbird
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A tale from the Ila-speaking people of Zambia gets new life in this picture book adaptation from Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan about appreciating one’s heritage and discovering the beauty within. Black is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although Black-bird warns them that true beauty comes from within, the other birds persist and soon each is given a ring of black around their neck or a dot of black on their wings—markings that detail birds to this very day.
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Who is the most beautiful bird? Blackbird, of course. All the other birds, all colors of the rainbow, envy Blackbird his beauty, and they beg Blackbird to share a bit of his beautiful black color with them. And so he does, painting black on the neck of a dove, and adding black spots here on this bird, and putting black lines there on another bird.
A celebration of the color black based on a folktale from Zambia.
