Black is Brown is Tan

Black is Brown is Tan was written by Arnold Adoff and illustrated by Emily McCully. The story is about an interracial family and their feelings. The story is written in some form of a poem. I however found this to be extremely difficult to understand. The story did not use punctuation and was not in a poem format that I was have ever seen before. An example of a page/verse is : I am mom am mommy mama mamu meeny muh and mom again. I wasn't sure what language these were all in or what race all of the different people in the story were. I really lost meaning in the story trying to read the format the book was written in. I thought it needed to be separated by some sort of punctuation or by lines. The story also talked about a lot of different people and their races. I sort of got mixed up about all of the different people that the story was trying to explain to it's readers. I felt really disconnected to the book while reading it and do not feel like I was able to truly take in the meaning and message of the story.