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I read this book right when it came out last winter and will always remember one of my students unmuting on zoom and saying "Mrs Parks, they are wearing masks like we do".  It was such as important connection as we were navigating our new normal. -Bitsy

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This book offers such personal connections to the March 2020 lockdown.  The words and pictures amazingly capture the experience and I felt so much emotion bubbling up throughout the book.  I agree with LeUyen that is is a time capsule of our experiences and also our feelings. I reread the book to my students recently and felt the same emotion! -Bitsy

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The illustrations are so powerful and emotional.  The hospital scenes and the family scenes - enjoying together time but also worrying about money/jobs - were particularly moving to me.  Many pages gave me goosebumps! -Bitsy

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Oh, these illustrations bring out the hopeful sides of life. Kids get to see that in any situation, you can choose how you will react. I love the way that this book is all about agency.

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We read this book last spring when it came out about the time we were done with hybrid learning and returning to everyone attending together. My students reflected on how things felt at first with the shut down. We acknowledged the feelings we also felt that were mentioned in the book. - Mandy

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We read this book last spring when it came out about the time we were done with hybrid learning and returning to everyone attending together. My students reflected on how things felt at first with the shut down. We acknowledged the feelings we also felt that were mentioned in the book. - Mandy

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I thought the illustrations showed the eerie sense of calm that happened and then you'd have a busy page with the hustle and bustle of the essential workers. The page about nature showing up more in our neighborhoods brought me back to my own backyard. I thought the individual boxes for families inside increased the message of quarantining. - Mandy

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I did a virtual workshop with Cass Minor and the author, Uyen Pham - they offered a teachers guide for discussion questions. However, I found I read the book once to enjoy then I reread it and found natural pausing points where I wanted to look and think deeper with the students and they stopped me for talking points. During this workshop they gave a pattern for making a dimensional house out of white yardstick and then the students could illustrate their inside and outside. We were all engaged and it was a great way to bring our fractured community together now that we were all in person. -Mandy

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I think the author's note is critical to read inbetween the first and second reading of the book. - Mandy

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I think the author's note is critical to read inbetween the first and second reading of the book. - Mandy

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Looking at the book again, I would like to discuss the phrasing to tell the story and flow of words - it's lyrical. - Mandy

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I looove the illustration near the end of the book that has a purple tone and lots of silhouettes. The text says, "But on the INSIDE, we are all the same." It's the hearts, I think, that give a surge of hope. It's playful and whimsical and reminds me that even in the dark there can be light.
--Ruth

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From Lynn in PA ~ I have not yet shared this book with students, but the connection I made was near the end of the text. The words on one double-page spread proclaim, "On the OUTSIDE, we are all different." The words on the following double-page spread echo, "But on the INSIDE, we are all the same." I teach in a school that promotes peace and conflict-resolution, so I might post this essential message near my peace table. 

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From Lynn in PA ~ I have not yet shared this book with students, but the connection I made was near the end of the text. The words on one double-page spread proclaim, "On the OUTSIDE, we are all different." The words on the following double-page spread echo, "But on the INSIDE, we are all the same." I teach in a school that promotes peace and conflict-resolution, so I might post this essential message near my peace table. 

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From Lynn in PA ~ I was moved by the end papers. From the small hug between child and cat on the front end papers to the big hug between the girl and the world on the back end papers, I felt this book illustrated a reassuring, metaphorical hug during a difficult time even if people couldn't hug in-person.

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From Lynn in PA ~ I was moved by the end papers. From the small hug between child and cat on the front end papers to the big hug between the girl and the world on the back end papers, I felt this book illustrated a reassuring, metaphorical hug during a difficult time even if people couldn't hug in-person.

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From Lynn in PA ~ A project I would use would be to begin with the cover illustration by having my students pair this illustration with their own view of what they'd see when looking out a window. I'd have them illustrate themselves looking out a window and then writing about what they see. 

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From Lynn in PA ~ A project I would use would be to begin with the cover illustration by having my students pair this illustration with their own view of what they'd see when looking out a window. I'd have them illustrate themselves looking out a window and then writing about what they see. 