Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
Meet Danitra Brown

writ­ten by Nik­ki Grimes
illus­trat­ed by Floyd Coop­er
Harper­Collins, 1994

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Meet Danitra Brown

from the book:

Some kids at school have a mom and a dad.
I’ve got Mom and me only.
On Par­ents’ Night it makes me mad
that it’s Mom and me only.
“You’ve got it good,” Dan­i­tra says when I am sad.
“Your mama loves you twice as much. Is that so bad?“
Dan­i­tra knows just what to say to make me glad.
With her around, I’m nev­er lonely.

from Meet Dan­i­tra Brown
© 1994 by Nik­ki Grimes

Awards and Recognition

  • ALA Notable Book
  • Coret­ta Scott King Award Hon­or Book
  • ABA-CBC Back­list title
  • 100 Titles for Read­ing and Sharing
  • 1996–97 Sequoy­ah Chil­dren’s Book Award Masterlist
  • 1996–97 Ten­nessee Vol­un­teer State Book Award Nominee
  • 1997–98 Penn­syl­va­nia Young Read­ers’ Choice Mas­ter List

Reviews

… an African-Amer­i­can girl sings the prais­es of her best friend and their spe­cial rela­tion­ship … Grimes’s poet­ry … smooth­ly describes a num­ber of vignettes and links them with con­sis­tent themes … (Pub­lish­ers Week­ly, starred review)

“In a live­ly cycle of 13 poems by the author of Some­thing On My Mind (1978), Zuri Jack­son cel­e­brates her vibrant best friend Dan­i­tra: ‘the most splen­dif­er­ous girl in town’ … Dan­i­tra shares work, play and con­fi­dences with equal verve, knows how to defuse a mean tease or com­fort a friend, and loves to wear pur­ple … The joy­ous por­tray­al will appeal to a broad age range. (Kirkus Reviews)

The poignant text and love­ly pic­tures are an excel­lent col­lab­o­ra­tion, result­ing in a look at touch­ing moments of friend­ship with uni­ver­sal appeal. (School Library Jour­nal)

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Cel­lar Door Books (signed)

Book­shop (local booksellers)

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You’ll also enjoy:

Danitra Brown Leaves Town
Dan­i­tra Brown Leaves Town
Danitra Brown Class Clown
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