{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0689847319?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0689847319","authors":["Ashley Bryan"],"book_id":"9780689847318","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/beautiful-blackbird-9780689847318","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780689847318.jpg?v=24cd1c548961d967","description":"A tale from the Ila-speaking people of Zambia gets new life in this picture book adaptation from Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan about appreciating one’s heritage and discovering the beauty within. Black is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although Black-bird warns them that true beauty comes from within, the other birds persist and soon each is given a ring of black around their neck or a dot of black on their wings—markings that detail birds to this very day.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780689847318","publication_date":"20030101","publisher":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","slug":"beautiful-blackbird","subtitle":"Hardcover – Picture Book, January 1, 2003","title":"Beautiful Blackbird"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"JUV011010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"US: African American Stories","score":0.739,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JUV002040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Bird Stories","score":0.7247,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF018010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.72,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"JUV011010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"US: African American Stories","score":0.739,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JUV002040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Bird Stories","score":0.7247,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF018010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.72,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"JUV002040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Bird Stories","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JUV011010","confidence_band":"high","label":"US: African American Stories","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JUV012030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Fairy Tales & Folklore","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"US: African American Stories","score":0.739,"slug":"us-african-american-stories"},{"label":"Bird Stories","score":0.7247,"slug":"bird-stories"},{"label":"African American Life (U.S.)","score":0.72,"slug":"african-american-life-u-s"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in stories about heritage and inner beauty"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Sharon Dennis Wyeth"],"book_id":"9780440412106","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780440412106.jpg?v=f56afac94448d1fe","score":0.7342,"title":"Something Beautiful","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780440412106"},{"authors":["Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D."],"book_id":"9781665900348","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781665900348.jpg?v=c4e732c8e0efbc7a","score":0.729,"title":"You So Black","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781665900348"},{"authors":["Virginia Hamilton"],"book_id":"9780679843368","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780679843368.jpg?v=5aca07707b0c865f","score":0.7012,"title":"The People Could Fly","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780679843368"},{"authors":["Kate Banks"],"book_id":"9781536215687","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781536215687.jpg?v=5e9be18ae0a44f2d","score":0.6997,"title":"The Winter Bird","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781536215687"},{"authors":["Sandra L. Pinkney"],"book_id":"9780439802512","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780439802512.jpg?v=4b4dc897035e194d","score":0.6963,"title":"Shades of Black: a Celebration of Our Children","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780439802512"},{"authors":["Brenda Woods"],"book_id":"9780593461556","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780593461556.jpg?v=ecdcb1449e97fef0","score":0.6913,"title":"With Just One Wing","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780593461556"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:self-worth"],"label":"Self","score":0.1238,"slug":"self"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:black is beautiful"],"label":"Black","score":0.1007,"slug":"black"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:black african american poc bipoc zambian folklore folktales"],"label":"African","score":0.059,"slug":"african"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:newbery honor coretta scott king award winning author illustrator creator"],"label":"Award","score":0.0359,"slug":"award"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Heritage, Inner beauty, Beauty standards.","Story elements: Animal origin tale.","Themes: Self, Black, African."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.88,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in stories about heritage and inner beauty"],"themes":["Heritage","Inner beauty","Beauty standards"],"tropes":["Animal origin tale"]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":176,"goodreads_ratings_count":815,"goodreads_reviews_count":273,"quality_score":0.9348}}