Title: Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
Description: An award-winning, beautiful picture book—poetry and art exploring issues of African American identity. A favorite book to share in schools and homes.

Included in Brightly.com's 2017 list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.

"A must," according to *Kirkus*. "Delicately interwoven images. Laden with meaning, the poetry is significant and lovely. Cooper's paintings, with vibrant, unsentimentalized characters in earth tone illumined with gold, are warm, contemplative."

*Booklist* commented: "Poems rooted in home, family, and the African-American experience. Highly readable and attractive."

Added Brightly.com: "Each poem has a unique message and theme and is accompanied by beautiful brown and gold earth-tone illustrations related to broomwheat tea."
Subjects: African Americans, American poetry, Children's poetry, American, Juvenile poetry, Poetry, African American authors, African Americans -- Juvenile poetry, African Americans -- Poetry, American poetry -- African American authors, Blacks, Children's poetry, Afro-American author, Afro-American illustrator, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honro Book 1994, Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book 1994, Afro-American setting, Black authors