Bright April

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Color edition with 8 pages in color as in the first edition.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Like the month she was born in and named after April was bright one moment and dark the next. But mostly she was Bright April-because of her happy family her Brownie Scout troop and all her friends in the Philadelphia suburb where she lived.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>This is April's story. It is especially the story of her tenth birthday which brought the best surprise she could have ever imagined.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Marguerite de Angeli has made the life of April and her family as real and as warm as a next door neighbor's. Most of all as always she has made a picture story book that is fun to read. She's profusely illustrated it with black and white drawings and eight pages in full color.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Originally published in 1946 </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Bright April</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> was the first children's book written in the United States concerning racial prejudice. Mrs. de Angeli felt that all children should be treated the same.</span></p>