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The Colors of Usx$3.86
  (22 reviews)
Best Price: $7.95 $3.86
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 the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.
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Excellent Book!
By AMY8TU45OW95D on 2000-08-15
I am a Pre-K/K Teacher. Last school year a child in my class, who had many questions about skin color, instantly attached to this book and it remained a favorite all year long. This is an excellent book that explores the various hues of us in a format that is extremely appealing and inviting to children. It is a great spring board for discussions of color and race with young children. A must have for any early childhood library.
Great book
By AU85M2DN6S07E on 2002-07-18
This is a wonderful book to introduce children to the concept of multiculturalism. I am white, my husband is Mexican and my daughters are dark like my husband. It is wonderful to see a book with a white mother and dark daughter, and it's wonderful to see all the different colored characters. My 4-year-old loves this book and I love reading her a story with a character she can relate to. I highly recommend it.
My Favorite Children's Book
By A2L7Q42CHE6CRN on 2003-03-29
I am an elementary school counselor and read this book to second graders. They love the comparisons of skin colors to foods, and it leaves everyone feeling good about the way they look. It is a strong multicultural book, but the presentation is very subtle, and not preachy.
Creative book about each person's uniqueness
By A293U1WUCM7MVL on 2004-10-11
Karen Katz has succeeded in presenting a colorful and creative book that describes the many beautiful shades of skin tone in our society. She teaches her daughter, Lena, that there are many shades of brown. They walk through their neighborhood, using color tones and food items to make tasteful distinctions. After Lena mixes her paint colors to match the subtle hues and paint each person, she exclaims, "Look Mom, the colors of us!" This has been a wonderful book for my 2 year old son to explore the differences in races as we await the adoption of our baby from China. He has memorized the skin color descriptions and has noticed people in our community/church whose skin matches them. This incredible book has become one of our favorites.
Great Book
By A23PRD5S4LP69J on 2003-03-20
This book is a great!A modern, hip book for all ages. The wonderful world of Color comes to life in all the Colors of People! My 4 year old loves the yummy discriptions of the book and learns to respect the differences in all of us. Thanks Karen Katz for writing and illurtating a great book. We hope more iwll follow
- Makes a GREAT gift
By A2DHWOELV1ICCJ on 2004-06-29
My 3 1/2 year old son loved this book so much that I decided to give it as gifts to all of his friends this year (as we go through the birthday party circuit). Besides the cute pictures and the lovely prose, it has a wonderful message that is appropriate for anyone.
- Outstanding
By on 2000-06-02
My 3 year old daughter just loves this book. The subject of racial diversity is very well presened, and done very creatively. My daughter relates well to the story because she loves colors and loves to paint.
- Rather one-sided
By A1WFZ5SQQIZ4PF on 2005-06-11
This books paints a rather one-sided picture of racial diversity and children may be misled to believe that racial differences are just a matter of skin colour.
A little too sentimental really and not very educational or useful.
- Beautiful Colors!
By AIEEK7AHXKZCC on 2006-11-25
Karen Katz is a genius. No two ways about it.
I like the beautiful way she describes the differences in skin tones by telling her daughter about the many shades of brown. She teaches her to notice similarities and differences by comparing their skin color to things in their immediate environment and using familiar items such as foods and color tones as compartive guides. This is a wonderful way of keeping it relevant to young audiences who can readily envision the comparisons this author provides. Lena, an apt pupil tells her mother, "...the colors of us!" I like the tone of acceptance this book has.
This delightful book is ideal for parents and educators of all races and is a wonderful unifier. It teaches diversity, yes, but there are more things people have in common than they do have differences. I love this kind of book!
- Shallow
By A2PAT3AK5OBSSJ on 2007-10-05
Oh my. Wow, does this book miss the point of differences/ our uniqueness! This book identifies an object similar to the child's skin color (e.g., cinnamon, chocolate cupcakes, etc...) and demonstrates very little about how we are unique by our interests, culture, heritage, national origin, etc... Very shallow.
We will not be reading this book to any of the members of our multiracial family. I would hope that others could grow to learn about the uniqueness of our family, other multiracial families and/or families of races other than their own in ways BEYOND skin color. This book misses the boat. One dimensional: skin color.
- The Colors Of Us
By ASFBBKZLTYK45 on 2006-09-17
A great book describing differences in skin color in a positive and easy to understand way for a small child. My 3 1/2 year old loves this book and I've ordered 10 more to give as gifts. If only many of us adults had grown up thinking of people as "all the shades of us" (cinnamon, peach, french toast, cocoa, chocolate brown) instead of the labels of black, white, asian,etc.
- Great for teachers
By A1V3T2U0NR30Y6 on 2007-02-26
I love this book because it celebrates every skin color as a beautiful one. I have used it several times with my preschool students and it is a great conversation starter. After reading this book, I ask each of my students to think of a food that looks like their own skin, and they have a lot of fun offering each other suggestions. They love to think of themselves as something as yummy as chocolate or honey. To further celebrate the multiculturalism in my classroom, I like to ask each of the children to bring in one of the foods they thought of so we can have a party. It is a great way for children to understand and appreciate diversity.
- A must!
By A16I9BLJRU47LV on 2007-02-04
This book helps little children to understand the differences in skin color and culture, as a whole. I'm grateful that my granddaughter had this author's writing to bring an aspect of society and life into perspective at a level she could relate to.
- This is a wonderful book
By AVBE50XV12SW2 on 2007-05-25
This book was purchased for our [...]son who attends a predominantly African American preschool. Three non-black children recently began enrollment there and the question of why they are not as dark as the other children came up. This book is a wonderful teaching tool that helped us explain that not all skin color is the same, and that none is better or worse than the other. It didn't matter that this book featured a little girl and her mom, my boy loves this book. It is in his bedtime story book rotation. I highly recommend it.
- Fantastic book! Great way to teach kids about diversity.
By A11K9RWZT2A97L on 2007-07-13
I bought this book for my toddler daughter after seeing her reaction to some people that didn't look like her while on a recent vacation overseas. This book captured her interest from the very beginning. She quickly learned the names of the characters and looked forward to reading this book every night. A few weeks later, I was happy to see that she reacted differently and much more positively when she encountered people with "different colors than us". This book is a great tool for teaching young children about diversity.
- Great Great Great Book
By A10YDXVQE0LCSI on 2007-09-27
Great book for any kid! We bought it because our daughter is adopted from Guatemala and we are white. I have used it with my neices and nephews as well to instill in them a love for all the beatiful colors of us.
- Love it!
By A1R7P7BQ7P3F40 on 2007-10-25
Such a cute book with a strong message. I am an early elementary education major and I am currently increasing my classroom library. This will definately be one of the books that I make available to my students. Great book.
- good for pre-k kids
By AR1MYP3TTDSPZ on 2007-11-16
I teach special education pre-k in a culturally diverse school. I think it's a wonderful way to introduce a complicated concept like racial diversity. And for the reviewers who said this book was "shallow" and "one-sided", let me say one thing: DUH! This book is written for small children who have not yet grasped abstract, higher order thinking. What do you expect 4 year olds to read? Alex Haley's "Roots"? Get over yourself--if you want a complex, thorough book on racial diversity, go get a college text book.
- "Out of many, one people!"
By A1UM2G5NCD6U2Z on 2007-12-13
A far as race goes, there is but one race we belong to, the HUMAN RACE. Concerning skin color or pigmentation, we come in an assortment of shades: "brown," "olive," "cinnamon," "egg shell", etc. Never have I seen a "black", "white", "yellow", or "red" human being. It is ethnicity, culture, heritage, etc. that makes us as humans differ. COLORism, in my opinion, persists today because we refuse to acknowledge that we are at the core the same. Our pigmentation has nothing to do with anything: "out of many, one people!" The definition of race needs, as was the definition of sex vs. gender, to be amended.
- Another favorite!
By A34WWWHA358Q6G on 2008-05-02
Another wonderful book for internationally adopted childen who want to know why their skin is a different color, etc. My daughter adopted from Guatemala LOVES this book!
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