I am Brown by Askok Banker
Written by Ashok Banker and beautifully illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat, this book is a joyful celebration of race - an appreciation of the skin you're in. I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book.
Each page features a lovely illustration helping to showcase the diversity of modern cultures and societies. This is a heartwarming and empowering book of self-love and acceptance. An uplifting children's book with a powerful message that you can be anything you want to be.
Author: Ashok Banker
Illustration: Sandhya Prabhat
Age: 2+ years
32 pages - Available in hardback or softback
Printed on FSC certified paper with non petroleum based inks
Award winning children's book publisher and social enterprise, Lantana Publishing, have a mission to publish inclusive books that are changing the game of publishing, commissioning books that celebrate diversity, equality, and environmental sustainability. In the UK, a third of school children identify as being Black, Asain, or Minority Ethnic (BAME), but yet less than 5% of books are representative of BAME characters. Further to this, less than 2% are authors or book creators represented by British people of colour, even less than this are representative of the LGBTQ+ communities or disabled. Lantana believes that every child deserves to see themselves in the books they read.