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Genre: Diversity, self awareness,

I love this story it would be a lesson for students to learn to be open to new cultures different from their own. I like how the author used the name jar to "break the ice," in the story. How the story played out to help Unhei feel accepted through the name jar and how the students wanted to show her that they found Korean nicknames for their own to be added to the jar. I could incorporate this as an activity of a name jar of different names the students could pick that they would add to the jar.

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Genre: Children's Literature, picture book, multicultural.

Children's book by Karen Katz. This book is a great read, colorful. I would use this book in my classroom to read to my class and we could do a learning activity of students making their own self portrait using different shades of brown. I like what the mom says to her daughter Lena on their walk in the neighborhood about everyone being a different shade of brown. I love how the daughter uses her creativity of her perspective of how everyone's shade resembles food. I really love how this book colorfully and beautifully celebrates cultural differences.

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Genre: Picture Book, multicultural / diversity

A tale of a young boy who learns about diversity through a magical adventure. I love the beautiful display of pictures of what children are doing all over the world in one day. The diverse culture of the lives of children across the world captured through a lens. This book would be great to start conversations about how all over the world we are all different and come from different cultures, yet we have a connection, self awareness and learning about the world around us.

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Genre: Literature, Dual Languages, Diversity

I like this book because it shares the El Salvador Spanish culture by naming things in Spanish by each letter of the Spanish Alphabet. This book I could follow along and have as a read aloud on the overhead for the students to learn the letter sounds of the Spanish alphabet.

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This is a super cute folktale from Panama. Conejito runs in to many animals on his way to his Tia Monica's house to eat some cookies and cakes to get fat, fat, fat, and played the trickster every time by telling them, "I am skinny right now and will be fat after eating cookies and cakes at Tia Monica." Tia Monica told Conejito to tell the animals on the way back that he was a barrel and rolling away from the fire and that they should do the same.

I loved how the Spanish text is mixed into the story. It's a good story to teach the students new Spanish words.

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It's a wonderful poetic story that beautifully showcases rich Latino culture. I would use this book to introduce to my students what a recipe is and what things go into a recipe. They will also learn measurement terms in cooking. I could also set up a station and have the students help me create the Frijoles recipe and make it in class. I would also pick out some of the Spanish words and have a Spanish word of the day and use it through the day for students to learn and repeat. I like how the story connected in to making of the Sopa de Frijoles.

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I love how this story is played out that is still appropriate for Pre-k. I like how the alphabet has different words describe fairness, social justices, civil movements by each letter of the alphabet. I recently took a Lead Teacher Preschool position and I think this book could easily be read and with questions that are at a 4 year old level. There could be activities of drawing pictures of what unfairness looks like and then compare the difference of unfairness from the book.

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I think this would be a good to have in my library. The text posing questions about what being Kind looks like is a great visual for preschool aged students. We could have a discussion after the story about they think being kind looks like. We could have the students draw a picture of what being kind looks like.

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This book won Correcta Scott King Illustrator Award, NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction For children, Essence Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year. Beautiful and eloquent illustrations. This book is a poetic and beautiful story of a young African American women's journey of success in achieving her dreams as a famous ballerina. This story would be good to share with my students to have conversations of dreaming to be anything you want to be no matter what color, gender, social status you are.

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I love the beautiful bright colorful photos of the different shades of the children. I love how they describe the different shades more beautifully, eloquent not boring like black, brown, and white. And I like how they go in detail the color of our skin does not define us by out color. That there are all different many of shades everywhere we look. This book would be a good book to read to my class. We would have a discussion about how are are different and unique. I would also have them draw a self portrait to have more awareness of who they are and how they are unique and different from everyone else.

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This book is really cute. I really liked how the Grandma finds something good in a world that filled with injustices. I noticed that when they waited at the bus stop they had to stand in the rain while the white privileged waited inside the bus stop covered building. This is a great read to share with my preschoolers. My students would notice differences like ethical and social status. Some ways I could use this book as a lesson is Asking right questions to get my students to think how they would respond the way CJ responded to everything. YOu could ask them what character in the story reminds you of you?

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I love this book and how it goes in depth giving us insight about our skin color. I like how the author describes our skin being more than just being black, or white. We all have a different shade of brown, and we could can chose our own words to describe what shade of brown we are. Children in my classroom would be able gain a better understanding of themselves and those around them. I would also use this as a teachable moment with my students to have them make a self portrait and color their portrait and be descriptive of what they think their skin color is in a different word than just brown, black, or white.

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This book empathizes the importance of being true to yourself and respecting the beauty of diversity around you. I like how the kindness was spread in this story, and that everyone worked together to make it a better world. The author did a good job, showing that we can make our world better by being yourself and having a respect and openness embrace the beauty of diversity.

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This story is narrated beautifully with poetry and rhythm to make the story flow with imagery of describing what our eyes look like and say. I would read this book to my students and ask posing questions about how they think of what their eyes look like and what they say to others. This story emphasizes self awareness and confidence of being unique and different.

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This story has a Caldecolt Medal, Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text, Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children.

I love how the text starts out in the beginning with stating, "Water is the first Medicine, and that we came from water. Water nourishes us in our mother's body as it nourishes us here on Mother Earth. Water is sacred." This story has a folktale take on it with the setting symbolizing certain civil injustices toward our land. Like how the Author uses the black snake to symbolize the injustices of how the white man is treating the water and land here on earth. And the text that says, "We stand for those who can't stand for themselves." I would read this book to my students, and talk to them about ways we could protect our water, and how we should preserve it and keep it clean.

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This story has been awarded, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor, and Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor. I love how the author correlates describing the color of the bread and compared the description with the pictures on the pages of different skin colored children. The story also talks about what Indigenous culture does to celebrate family, and one of the ways is making Fry Bread and meals together. Fry Bread is an art to be shared from teacher to student and a cultural heritage.

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Fry Bread A Native American Family Story

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I really like this poetic story about being confident about being yourself. It's a story of empowerment of being who you are and telling yourself I am enough. I like how the author's written text is a poetic rhythm connecting the story to self confidence of being yourself to self prophetic words. For instances when the text says, Like the sun, I'm here to shine, or like the voice, I'm to sing." This is a good book to read to the class. I would have my students come up with some of their words to describe who they are and what makes them different from others.

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I really like this story. This story helps students to understand that we are all different and that what we do, who we are, where we are from is okay. Being different is what makes you unique and stand out from others. If we were all the same, life would be colorless and boring. I think that is why the author chose illustrations as being bright and colorful, it's to symbolize the uniqueness of being yourself if this world.

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I really like this story. This would be a good way to introduce the concept of diversity to my students. The pictures are vibrant. I like how the little girl explains what diversity is in a way for even 4 years old to understand. The lens of a child on explaining what the word diversity means to her. She said she has curly hair, brown skin, and and freckles on my face. But that does not define me. It's who we are on the inside is what makes us different.

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This story talks is a good way of show students that they are safe and welcomed at school. I like the pictures of the diversified backgrounds of the different cultures and races presented in this book. The text on the one page says it all, "We are a community. Our strength is our diversity, a shelter from adversity. All are welcome here." Children need to know right away that they feel safe and confident to be themselves. There are many diverse backgrounds and we need to teach are students that we are all diverse and different and that we need to be accepting of each other's differences.