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"My name is Lena and I am seven. I am the color of cinnamon. Mom says she could eat me up."
Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when Lena and her mother take a walk through their neighborhood, Lena sees that there are many different shades and tones of brown. Seen from an artist's point of view, skin colors are subtle, varied—and cause for celebration!
Karen Katz created this book for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.
PreS-Gr 2 Lena's mother is an artist, so she knows whereof she speaks when she insists that there are many different shades of brown. The two take a walk through their neighborhood by way of illustration, and the friends and relatives they meet along the way aptly reinforce Mom's contention. Their skin colors are compared to honey, peanut butter, pizza crust, ginger, peaches, chocolate, and more, conjuring up delicious and beautiful comparisons for every tint. Katz's pencil-and-gouache pictures joyously convey the range of human pigmentation. Positive and useful. Miriam Lang Budin, Chappaqua Public Library, NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Ryan Steinke
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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