Our Skin
Author: Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, & Isabel Roxas Illustrator: Isabel Roxas Genre: Children's literature Grade: Pre-K - 3rd Grade Summary: Our skin is a magnificent reading to start a conversation about skin color with our children's. This book uses scientific terms that can be introduce to children's at any age. Additionally, we can utilize the book our skin as an example in our classroom to represent skin color with a proper name. Many scholars pointed at this book as great conversation starter for skin color in our classroom. Overall the book our skin can easily initiate a clear view of race, gender, social justice, body positivity, respect to others and the ways that racism operates in our surroundings. Element 2: Respect to others The idea of respect to others should be taught to children as soon as they recognize differences in peoples skin color. By doing so, we educate and start creating a positive learning...