Pub Date: April 1, 2013
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 93005164
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 05 to 08
Physical Info: 0.20" H x 8.20" L x 10.00" W ( 0.30 lbs) 32 pages
Description:
An African American girl and her friends play together and learn that despite their physical differences, they are all really the same.
Brief description:
Michael Bryant has received the Jane Addams Peace Award Honor, Parenting magazine's Reading Magic Award and the Parents Choice award for his illustration work. Bryant lives in Saylorburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and their two daughters. Visit him online at www.michaelbryantart.com.
Review Quotes:
"An exuberant story. The cheerful faces and colorful outdoor scenes in Bryant's vibrant paintings harmonize so well with the bouncy rapping that children will clamor for an immediate reread." -- Kirkus Reviews
"[An] ode to the beauty of diversity." -- School Library Journal
"This fast-paced, cheerful, rap story is multicultural literature at its best." -- Child Magazine
CCBC Choices - Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor - Jane Addams Peace Association