human skin color

Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.

Children interact with others and discover that they have different skin colors.

Explains the meaning of words used to refer to African-Americans and describes the varied hues of African-American skin.

Enchanted by Nina Bonita's black skin, a white rabbit determines to find a way to have children as beautiful and black as she is.

A series of poems by poet Malathi Michelle Iyengar, where she reflects on the various shades of brown in order to encourage kids to embrace each other's differences.

Presents a rhyming verse that describes skin and its many attributes, including its color, its elasticity, and all the things it does.

A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin.

Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.

The author, a dark-skinned African-American, meditates upon the color complex that still exists in the U.S. and throughout the world, and looks at how the notion that lighter is better has affected her life and the lives of others.