Jessica's review
Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book)
by Mem Fox
Jessica's review
Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book) by Mem Fox
Jessica's review
rating:
recommended for: elementary educators and children
Overview
This book is appropriate for Kindergarten to third grade. The stroy is simple and celebrates human connections through descriptions and colorful pictures. "Little one, whoever you are," is the introduction to the story. Fox explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different homes and different climates, go to different schools, and speak in different tongues but all children love, smile, laugh, and cry. Their joys, pain, and blood are the same, "whoever they are, wherever they are, all over the world." From School Library Journal Inside the covers of this book illustrator Leslie Staub has created a collage of characters representing the colors, shapes and textures associated with all humans.
Activites
*compare differences and similarites as a class and in partner
*provide dress up clothes from several culutres for pretend play
*create model homes from all over the world
*learn to say something in a...more
This book is appropriate for Kindergarten to third grade. The stroy is simple and celebrates human connections through descriptions and colorful pictures. "Little one, whoever you are," is the introduction to the story. Fox explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different homes and different climates, go to different schools, and speak in different tongues but all children love, smile, laugh, and cry. Their joys, pain, and blood are the same, "whoever they are, wherever they are, all over the world." From School Library Journal Inside the covers of this book illustrator Leslie Staub has created a collage of characters representing the colors, shapes and textures associated with all humans.
Activites
*compare differences and similarites as a class and in partner
*provide dress up clothes from several culutres for pretend play
*create model homes from all over the world
*learn to say something in a...more
