Children's Nonfiction Diversity & Multicultural
What Makes Us Unique?
Our First Talk About Diversity
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2016
- Category
- Diversity & Multicultural, Prejudice & Racism, Special Needs
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781459816664
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $4.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459828254
- Publish Date
- Feb 2021
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459809505
- Publish Date
- Sep 2016
- List Price
- $18.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 3 to 5
- Grade: p to k
- Reading age: 3 to 5
Description
Our conversations with children about cultural, religious and physical differences are more important than ever, and they need to start at an early age, but we know it can be difficult to know where to begin.
What Makes Us Unique? provides an accessible introduction to the concept of diversity, teaching children how to respect and celebrate people's differences and that, ultimately, we are all much more alike than we are different. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion.
Child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts designed the Just Enough series to empower parents/caregivers to start conversations with young ones about difficult or challenging subject matter. Other books in the series deal with birth, death, separation and divorce.
About the authors
Cindy Revell planned on becoming an artist ever since her first taste of wax crayons during her childhood in Carrot River, a small town in Saskatchewan. After some very uncreative forays into the working world Cindy realized that she needed to get back to art and went to college receiving her diploma in Environmental Graphic Design. Cindy worked as a designer and illustrator eventually going on to become an award winning freelance illustrator.
Her illustrations have been used on billboards, wine bottles, books, magazines, calendars, furniture, packaging and numerous children's books all over North America. She was nominated in 2001 for a Governor General's award for children's book illustration (Mallory and the Power Boy). Some of her clients are: Adobe, L.A. Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Better Homes and Gardens, Cornell University, Penguin Putnam, Annick Press, Orca Book Publishers and Scholastic.
As well as being an illustrator, she is an accomplished oil painter. Several years of regular oil painting classes, numerous international and provincial workshops and traveling to view and learn from the old masters as well as her design and illustration training have helped her develop as a traditional realist.
Cindy loves the work of the Flemish oil painters and Spanish artist, Luis Melendez, while her illustration has been inspired by folk, medieval, and eastern art. Her oil painting and illustration are vastly different from one another, the oil paintings tending to be simple and elegant while the illustrations are full of pattern and whimsy. The common element in her oil paintings and illustrations is her use of colour which is always rich and lush.
Cindy is represented by Deborah Wolfe Ltd. See her work at http://www.cindyrevell.com.
Awards
- Commended, BC Books for BC Schools
- Commended, CCBC Best Books
Editorial Reviews
"This is a good book as a one-on-one read aloud or with a small group of students. It would be a perfect 'just in time' book after a distressing event...or to help explain a negative current event in the news...This would be a valuable book in the home, classroom and school library."
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"The value of diversity is woven through the child-like drawing and reinforces the topic of variety and uniqueness. The illustrations sparkle with colour and warmth...The underlying powerful message is one of respecting the variety in our world, and readers are left with the optimistic spin of celebrating differences. It is never too early to teach even the youngest that we are all different and special in our own way."
CM Magazine
“Child-friendly art, appropriately reflecting the ‘rainbow’ of human differences, accompanies the purposeful, well-intentioned text.”
The Horn Book
Other titles by Jillian Roberts
Et si on parlait de notre corps?
My Promise
On the Internet
Our First Talk About Online Safety
Calm
Et si on parlait d'Internet “
Et si on parlait des préjugés “
Et si on parlait de la pauvreté “
Et si on parlait des Tragédies “
Just Enough Series Ebook Bundle
The World Around Us Series Ebook Bundle
Other titles by Cindy Revell
Just Enough Series Ebook Bundle
Why Do Families Change? Read-Along
Our First Talk About Separation and Divorce
Why Do Families Change?
Our First Talk About Separation and Divorce
What Makes Us Unique? Read-Along
Our First Talk About Diversity
Clever Rachel Read-Along
Room Enough for Daisy Read-Along
A Sack Full of Feathers Read-Along
What Happens When a Loved One Dies?
Our First Talk About Death
What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Read-Along
Our First Talk About Death
Where Do Babies Come From?
Our First Talk About Birth