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Summary: Endorsements from Early Childhood Professionals
Review: "This is just what teachers concerned with equitable science education need - a story for young children that demystifies skin color and celebrates diversity!" - Phyllis Brady, Principal Investigator and Director, Early Equity in Science & Mathematics Project"All the Colors We Are will be a much-appreciated addition to classroom and home libraries. It provides straight-forward information for children, teachers and parents that answers the often asked and hard-to-answer questions about how we get our skin color. All the Colors We Are, through a positive exploration and celebration of skin color differences, takes the power out of the prevailing color-bias. The written text along with the suggested classroom activities, will provide a powerful teaching tool for the anti-bias classroom." - Ellie Nolan, Director, Helen Gordon Child Development Center, Portland State University "Preschoolers are curious about and construct their own 'theories' about the differences in skin colors. All the Colors We Are wonderfully takes up the challenge to provide scientifically accurate explanations that are meaninful at their developmental stage. It is a welcome and needed contribution to children's literature about diversity issues." - Louise Derman-Sparks, early childhood expert and author of The Anti-Bias Curriculum "This melanin book is lovely. What a nice way to help parents and teachers begin and extend children's conversations about skin color." - Carol Brunson Phillips, Executive Director, Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
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Summary: It's OKAY...
Review: I personally like the book, but reading this to my kids was a drag. They wouldn't pay attention. They didn't care. And they said it was boring. The pictures are REAL pictures, and not illustrations. My kids are 6 and 4 years old. Maybe in 2 or 3 years they'll appreciate it. I don't know.
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Summary: It's OKAY...
Review: I personally like the book, but reading this to my kids was a drag. They wouldn't pay attention. They didn't care. And they said it was boring. The pictures are REAL pictures, and not illustrations. My kids are 6 and 4 years old. Maybe in 2 or 3 years they'll appreciate it. I don't know.
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Summary: Terrific book for use in the classroom
Review: This is a great book for use in the classroom. It allows students to gain a better understanding of the differences among us and that these differences are not always black or white. This book is a good book to use in a literature focused unit on Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.
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Summary: Terrific book for use in the classroom
Review: This is a great book for use in the classroom. It allows students to gain a better understanding of the differences among us and that these differences are not always black or white. This book is a good book to use in a literature focused unit on Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.
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Summary: Endorsement from Phyllis Brady, Director of EESMP
Review: This is just what teachers concerned with equitable science education need - a story for young children that demystifies skin color and celebrates diversity! - Phyllis Brady, Principal Investigator and Director, Early Equity in Science & Mathematics Project
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Summary: Very helpful
Review: We live in a very small town and my 3 year old daughter goes to an in-home babysitter with only three other children, she is also the oldest child there. After routine T.V. time and Christmas shopping at the mall this past holiday season, my daughter began to ask questions. In early January, we bought a new car and the business manager that we did all of the paperwork with had a darker complexion, my daughter asked "mom, what color is he?". This embarrassed my husband and the next day I ordered "all the colors we are". My daughter likes the book because of all the pictures of real kids. She also has begun to point at different skin colors in the book and say "this one is pretty" and similar comments. She doesn't understand the melanin section yet but overall she likes the book and asks us to read it to her over and over.
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Summary: Very helpful
Review: We live in a very small town and my 3 year old daughter goes to an in-home babysitter with only three other children, she is also the oldest child there. After routine T.V. time and Christmas shopping at the mall this past holiday season, my daughter began to ask questions. In early January, we bought a new car and the business manager that we did all of the paperwork with had a darker complexion, my daughter asked "mom, what color is he?". This embarrassed my husband and the next day I ordered "all the colors we are". My daughter likes the book because of all the pictures of real kids. She also has begun to point at different skin colors in the book and say "this one is pretty" and similar comments. She doesn't understand the melanin section yet but overall she likes the book and asks us to read it to her over and over.
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