Arnold Adoff Books
I Am The Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans
By Arnold Adoff
Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.
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Big Sister Tells Me That I'm Black
By Arnold Adoff
A big sister helps her little black brother realize his identity.
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Black is brown is tan
By Arnold Adoff
Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
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Ma Nda La.
By Arnold Adoff
The sounds MA, DA, LA, HA, RA, NA, and AH (representing respectively mother, father, singing, laughing, cheering, sighing, and contentment) form a chant celebrating an African family's cultivation...
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