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Arnold Adoff

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Gender Male
Age 88
Date of birth July 16,1935
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born The Bronx
New York City
New York
United States
Spouse Virginia Hamilton
Children Jaime Levi Adoff
Leigh Hamilton Adoff
Job Poet
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID598151

Black is brown is tan.
All the Colors of the Race
Roots and Blues: A Celebration
I Am the Darker Brother
Slow dance heart break blues
In for Winter, Out for Spring
Touch the poem
Malcolm X
Sports Pages
Daring Dog and Captain Cat
Love letters
Chocolate Dreams: Poems
My Black Me
The Poetry of Black America
Eats: Poems
The return of Rex and Ethel
The basket counts
Hard to be six
Flamboyan
Outside Inside Poems
The cabbages are chasing the rabbits
I am the running girl
Greens: Poems
Ma nda la
Today we are brother and sister
Tornado! Poems
Where wild Willie
It is the poem singing into your eyes
Big sister tells me that I'm Black
Make a Circle, Keep Us in: Poems for a Good Day
Birds: Poems
Friend dog
Under the early morning trees
Mandala
City in all directions; an anthology of modern poems
Once Upon Time
Black on Black
Human, of Course
Day of Awe
Street music
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Arnold Adoff was an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems."

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