New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Hardcover first edition - A very early, and now hard to find, book for children written by Don Emblen and his first wife when they themselves were young (Emblen capped his long writing career by being named Sonoma County's first poet laureate.) . Joan Frank writing for ZYZZYVA commented that "The story broaches, with extreme gentleness, the problem of racism, or Otherness. The orphaned Juan, who lives with an American foster family, worries that he is the wrong color. Animal and human friends, of different colors, teach him otherwise." Illustrated by Lynd Ward. 189 pp. Illustrated endpaper.