Desirae Breeding
Author: Nikki Grimes
Title: Meet Danitra Brown
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Genre: Poem Book
Subgenre: Narrative Poem
Theme: My best friend Danitra Brown
Primary and secondary characters: Zuri Jackson and Danitra Brown
Awards and dates of publications: This book is a Coretta Scott King honor book and was published in 1984.
Publishing Company: Harpercolins Children's Books
This book explains Zuri's life with her best friend Danitra Brown. Throughout the book Zuri keeps on showing examples about how her best friend Danitra, is such a great friend. For example Danitra makes Zuri feel good about the darkness of her skin. Zuri hates when all the other kids tease her and say, "You so black, girl," but Zuri expresses, Danitra says, "My skin's like double choclate fudge." Danitra also makes Zuri feel better at back to school night, because Zuri only has a mother and not a father. Danitra reassures her that she has it good, because her mom loves her twice as much! Danitra and Zuri are best friends and they constantly support each other.
This book can be an excellent book to read to my students and to express to them the importance of good friendships. I can explain to them that friends are suppose to support each other, play nice with each other, and are there to make us feel loved. But, if we are mean to our friends then this kind of connection will be hard to find.
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