Wonderfully, Marvelously, Brown Epic Book Launch

 

About the Book 

Book: Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown 

Author: Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon 

Genre: Children’s picture book, fiction, ages 3-8 

Release date: October 1, 2024 

 

Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown, follows a young boy on a joyously affirming adventure that celebrates all shades of brown, from the darkest to the lightest. 
 
From new school desks to freckles and moles, from fresh pastries to cedar canoes, brown is everywhere around us. God created and used brown to color the giant California redwoods, the Grand Canyon walls, busy beavers building dams, great horned owls hoo-hooing, and his image-bearers.  

 

Everywhere that I go 
I’m searching to see 
something wonderfully, marvelously 
brown—just like you and like me! 
 
Illustrated by Pura Belpré Honor Award artist Sara Palacios and written by Xochitl Dixon, Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown takes kids on a tour of the U.S. to seek and find all the brilliant and beautiful shades of brown—from ivory to ebony—that God created. Readers will be encouraged to love the skin tone God chose for them as they observe how the spectacular shades of brown are reflected in their communities and the world around them. 

 

Book Excerpt 

5. Your main character is a child with an invisible illness and a service dog, inspired by your own service dog Callie. You also include children with and without disabilities working, playing, and serving God together in all your children’s books, even when you are not talking about diversity. What is the reason behind this intentional choice? 

 

As a disabled woman of color with an invisible illness and a professionally trained service dog, I like diverse children with disabilities represented as heroes and not sideline characters . . . especially in books that are not about a person having a disability.  

 

  

  

About the Author 

Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon, author of Waiting for God: Trusting Him for the Answers to Your Prayers, is a regular contributor for Our Daily Bread, the bestselling God Hears Her compilations and blog, and Tyndale’s NLT Go Bible for Kids (September 2024). Equipping readers to grow closer to God while nurturing an authentic loving community, she shares biblical encouragement, celebrates ethnic diversity, and advocates for disability awareness with her beautifully diverse family and her service dog, Callie, featured in the 2021 ECPA Christian Book Award Children’s Book Finalist Different Like Me, Diferente como yo, What Color is God’s Love? and Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown. She connects with readers on Instagram, Facebook, and at www.xedixon.com.