BRIGHT APRIL. Marguerite de Angeli, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1946.
 
Classic Juvenile Fiction
 
Bright April is a 1946 children's picture-story book written and illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli, the story is about a young African-American girl named April who experiences racial prejudice; it is also the story of her bright personality and her tenth birthday and the surprise it brought. The story is set in the Germantown
neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the scenery portrayed in the author's illustrations can be recognized even today.
 
Bright April was the first children's book to address the divisive issue of racial prejudice, a daring topic for a children's book of that time.
 
Gray hardcover with red cover art and a red spine title (color illustrated endpapers). Secure binding with clean pages and small original owner name at the inside cover. The jacket has wear at the edges with some smaller tears, creases and small chips. About 8-1/2 square with 86 numbered pages. Black & white and color illustrated children's storybook. Scarce with jacket!