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A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades.
Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.
Karen Katz has been an illustrator and a graphic designer for many years. Her first book, Over the Moon, tells the story of the adoption of her daughter, Lena, from Guatemala. Lena was also the inspiration for this book, which Ms. Katz says she wrote in affirmation of Lena and her friends, and the diversity that surrounds them. Ms. Katz and her family divide their time between New York City and Woodstock, New York.
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Scott Clausen
reviewed The Colors of Us on May 09, 2015 The Colors of Us
Personal Reaction: This is hands down my favorite children's book i've ever read. It talks about the colors of people's skin in such a positive way and shares how we are all beautiful because we are different. I will use this book in my classroom one day.
Read Aloud: This would be an amazing read aloud. It talks about diversity in the most positive way and helps kids realize that people are different but in good, sweet ways. Everyone's skin tone is compared to something like chocolate or cinnamon or coffee or coconut or honey. I think it would be a good activity to have kids to describe themselves as one sweet if they could and then share with each other.
Independent Read: I enjoyed reading this as a personal read, however this would be a good beginner's book. It would be good for a first graders. The pages of writing have one to two sentences and the dialogue is very repetitive making it an easy read.
For Narrative: I think this would be a good book to teach the theme or the moral of the story. The kids are supposed to get out of this book that it is good that everyone is different, and this is something that is very important for everyone to know and understand (especially at a younger age/growing up).
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