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A young biracial girl looks around her world for her color. She finally chooses her own, and creates a new word for herself�honeysmoke. Simone wants a color. She asks Mama, �Am I black or white?� �Boo,� Mama says, just like mamas do, �a color is just a word.� She asks Daddy, �Am I black or white?� �Well,� Daddy says, just like daddies do, �you�re a little bit of both.� For multiracial children, and all children everywhere, this picture book offers a universal message that empowers young people to create their own self-identity. Simone knows her color�she is honeysmoke. An Imprint Book "Fields� extensive experience writing about race and identity translates with beautiful simplicity here for younger readers, and Moises paints Simone with great tenderness... A terrific addition to the WeNeedDiverseBooks canon, where it joins such books as Selina Alko's I�m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother and Taye Diggs' Mixed Me!." �Booklist "Honeysmoke is so beautiful and true that it made me burst into tears of gratitude for what [Monique Fields] has given to us all. Honeysmoke should be in every library and gathering place of young children." �Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance