We're Different, We're the Same
10 best books like We're Different, We're the Same (Bobbi Jane Kates): Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message, The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague, Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children, The Secret Life of Squirrels: A Love Story, All the Colors of the Earth, I Got the Rhythm, Don't Touch My Hair!, Happy to Be Nappy, Nappy Hair, Book
| Author | Jake Swamp |
| ISBN | 1880000547 |
The new addition to our morning devotional . . . The Thanksgiving Address of my people, adapted into children's literature by Chief Jake Swamp, with beautiful illustrations by Erwin Printup, Jr., is breathing the new life of gratitude into our daily round in bright and peaceful and simple and truthful...
| Author | Julia Finley Mosca |
| ISBN | 1943147426 |
Meet Raye Montague--the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy!
After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping...
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
| Author | Sandra L. Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0439148928 |
I am black. I am unique.
Let's talk about racism! Ah, yes, I can see you heading for the exit already. That's okay, I totally get it. It's a rough topic. For those of you still with me:
How do you teach a child about racism or tell him/her about it? I don't know. I don't have a flippin' clue....
| Author | Nancy Rose |
| ISBN | 0316272639 |
Love is in the air with another irresistible photographic story of wild squirrels in homemade miniature settings -- stopping at the bookstore, shopping for groceries, playing on the playground, and more -- delighting readers and animal lovers of all ages.
A brand new companion...
All the Colors of the Earth
| Author | Sheila Hamanaka |
| ISBN | 0688170625 |
Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love—not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more.
Included in Brightly.com's 2017 list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids, this beautifully illustrated book "celebrates...
| Author | Connie Schofield-Morrison |
| ISBN | 1619631784 |
On a simple trip to the park, the joy of music overtakes a mother and daughter. The little girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her- from butterflies, to street performers, to ice cream sellers everything is musical! She sniffs, snaps, and shakes her way into the heart of the beat, finally busting...
| Author | Sharee Miller |
| ISBN | 0316562580 |
An entertaining picture book that teaches the importance of asking for permission first as a young girl attempts to escape the curious hands that want to touch her hair.
It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In the street, strangers reach for her fluffy curls; and...
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0786804270 |
This is just a kids' book...a happy nappy kids book...that expresses joy for black hair. This is the way I think about black hair. bell hooks wrote the words here and she was unambiguous: This can be a joy. Happy to be nappy.
The paintings within are really great: blobs of color and streaks of hair...
| Author | Carolivia Herron |
| ISBN | 0679894454 |
This book was a fun experience! (I'll have to compare to the other three picturebooks on this theme.) The voice of the grandpa reminded me so much of my own grandpa, who also loved to push a joke. I thought the call/response storytelling was so fresh and unique, and the way fonts were used to represent different...
| Author | David W. Miles |
| ISBN | 1939629659 |
In a world dazzled by the latest gadgets and mesmerized by Internet videos, the humble book seems like the most ordinary thing that could be. And perhaps it is until you learn to look closer . . . and closer . . . and closer . . . and you re suddenly in a world that only you can imagine.
With soft, warm...
| Author | Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
| ISBN | 0440412102 |
A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152060308 |
Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may not speak the same language. Their lives may be quite different. But inside, they are all alike. Stirring words and bold paintings weave their way around our...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0762420480 |
The same story that captivated readers in 1977 is back in a stunning new edition! Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since birth. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one from magicians to physicians can help her. Then,...
| Author | Holly Robinson Peete |
| ISBN | 0545094666 |
Callie is very proud of her brother Charlie. He's good at so many things — swimming, playing the piano, running fast. And Charlie has a special way with animals, especially their dog, Harriett. But sometimes Charlie gets very quiet. His words get locked inside him, and he seems far away. Then, when...
| Author | Mordicai Gerstein |
| ISBN | 0064432114 |
In a tiny village, high in the mountains of Tibet, lives a woodcutter. All his life he has longed to travel to faraway places, to see the world. But he grows old without ever leaving the mountian. When he dies, he is suddenly offered the chance to live another life, in any form he wants, anywhere in the galaxies....
| Author | Pooja Makhijani |
| ISBN | 0316011053 |
When a young girl eyes her mother's suitcase full of gorgeous silk, cotton and embroidered saris, she decides that she, too, should wear one, even though she is too young for such clothing. When the mother finally realizes how important it is for her little girl to feel like a big girl on her seventh birthday,...
| Author | Arnold Adoff |
| ISBN | 0064432696 |
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
| Author | Karen Katz |
| ISBN | 0805071636 |
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...
| Author | Michael Tyler |
| ISBN | 0975958003 |
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward...
| Author | Taye Diggs |
| ISBN | 1250047196 |
Mom and Dad say I'm a blend of dark and light:
"We mixed you perfectly, and got you just right."
Mike has awesome hair. He has LOTS of energy! His parents love him. And Mike is a PERFECT blend of the two of them.
Still, Mike has to answer LOTS of questions about being mixed. And he does,...
To one young narrator, it's the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country, and kissing her mama's arm.
When this poem was first published in 1978 in Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems, Eloise Greenfield reminded us that love can be...
| Author | Paige Britt |
| ISBN | 1338053140 |
Have you ever wondered why you are you? Or who you would be if you were someone else? Someone taller, faster, smaller, smarter? Someone lighter, older, darker, bolder?
Presented as a poetic exchange between two characters--who don't realize they are thinking and asking the very same questions--this...
Richard Scarry's A Day at the Fire Station
| Author | Huck Scarry |
| ISBN | 0307105458 |
The firefighters at the station have a very busy day. The painters Drippy and Sticky are trying to paint the firehouse. Trouble happens when the drop cloth falls off the fire truck and paint spills all over the fire truck and stains the fire fighters gear. This doesn't stop the firefighters from responding...
