Front Cover: Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring

Interior Spread: Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring

Beautiful Shades of Brown

The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring

Interest Level: Grade 1 - Grade 4
Reading Level: Grade 3

Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn’t see any artists who looked like her. She didn’t see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington DC’s National Portrait Gallery, where children of all skin tones can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.

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Interest Level	Grade 1 - Grade 4
Reading Level	Grade 3
Genre	Picture Books, Social Studies
Category	5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Books: Race & Ethnicity, Diversity
Copyright	2019
Publisher	Creston Books
Imprint	Creston Books
Language	English
Number of Pages	36
Publication Date	2020-02-04

Text Type	Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS	JNF007010, JNF007050, JNF007020
Dewey	759.13
Graphics	Full-color illustrations
Dimensions	8 x 10
Lexile	940
ATOS Reading Level	4.8
Accelerated Reader® Points	0.5
Features	Awards, Original artwork, Reviewed, and eSource

Author: Nancy Churnin

Nancy Churnin is the author of many children’s books, including Martin & Anne, Sydney Taylor Notable Irving Berlin, the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing, and the Sydney Taylor Honor Book Dear Mr. Dickens. She is a full-time writer living in Texas.

Illustrator: Felicia Marshall

Felicia Marshall draws on her childhood experiences in rural Texas for her illustrations. Her most recent book, Beautiful Shades of Brown, was an NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, a Eureka Honor Book, and won the Northern Lights Book Award.

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