# Beautiful Blackbird

**Author:** Ashley Bryan
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 19
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781665960274`
**ISBN-10:** `1665960272`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/beautiful-blackbird
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.

## Where this book is assigned

### Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2004 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)

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