Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown

A joyously affirming rhyming picture book that follows a young boy on an adventure to find and celebrate all shades of brown--including you and me!--from the author of Different Like Me and What Color Is God’s Love?

Everywhere that I go
I’m searching to see
something wonderfully, marvelously
brown--just like me!

From new school desks to freckles and moles, from fresh pastries to cedar canoes, brown is everywhere around us. It’s a color that describes the giant California redwoods and the Grand Canyon walls, busy beavers building dams and great horned owls hoo-hooing.

Illustrated by Pura Belpré Honor Award artist Sara Palacios, Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown takes kids on a tour of the U.S. to seek and find all the brilliant and beautiful shades of brown--from ivory to ebony--that God used in creation, including humans! Through the rhythmic text and repeating refrain, children of all races, ages, and abilities will be encouraged to love the skin they’re in as they observe how it’s reflected in their communities and the world around them.

Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon is a contributing writer for Our Daily Bread and God Hears Her. Her books include the children’s titles What Color Is God’s Love? and Different Like Me / Diferente como yo, as well as the 31-day devotional Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace. She’s also a contributor to the ECPA bestseller God Hears Her. Xochitl enjoys serving Jesus alongside her beautifully diverse family and her service dog Callie, and she loves Jesus, her neighbors, and readers like you!

Sara Palacios is the recipient of the Pura Belpré Honor Award for her work on Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match and has illustrated many picture books for children. Sara earned her BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband.