"Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although Black-bird warns them that true beauty comes from within, the other birds persist and soon each is given a ring of black around their neck or a dot of black on their wings—markings that detail birds to this very day." -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Folklore
Content: Skin Tone and Color
Settings: Africa
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary