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The Skin You Live In explores the concept of skin to encourage self-esteem and to celebrate the ways in which children are both unique and similar. While Csicsko's joyful, unique art, which takes imbalanced with proportion and point of view, shows children of diversities of skin colors engaged in different activities, the narrative encourages readers to look at their skin. | The Skin You Live In explores the concept of skin to encourage self-esteem and to celebrate the ways in which children are both unique and similar. While Csicsko's joyful, unique art, which takes imbalanced with proportion and point of view, shows children of diversities of skin colors engaged in different activities, the narrative encourages readers to look at their skin. | ||
− | "The skin you have fun in | + | "The skin you have fun in it; the skin that you hop , skip and jump in the sun in, the skin that you run in it;." By pointing out what color the skin is ''not'' , subsequent verses affably emphasize that skin should not be discriminated "It's not dumb skin or clever skin, or keep us separate skin, or weak skin or super skin, I'm correct and you're not correct skin." Portraying four smiling children, the concluding spread declares, "when we stand by each other side in our wonderful hues... We all make a beauty, so amazingly true. We are special and different and just the same, too!" The sentences that uses food-related metaphors as it pays tribute to skin tones: "Your coffee and cream skin, your warm cocoa dream skin... Your chocolate chip, double dip sundae supreme skin!" <ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9759580-0-1 The Skin You Live In]. Retrieved on January 1, 2021.</ref> |
== Anti-racism value == | == Anti-racism value == | ||
− | The author, Michael Taylor, mentioned that ‘The Skin You Live In’ was written to promote self acceptance, and he thinks that by writing thid book right now where we’ve seen division on a magnitude that we haven’t seen since 1968, perhaps, that this book can be a tool for educators and parents to try to give that lesson to their children about acceptance. It's very important for the children to know that it's okay to be different. | + | The author, Michael Taylor, mentioned that ‘The Skin You Live In’ was written to promote self acceptance, and he thinks that by writing thid book right now where we’ve seen division on a magnitude that we haven’t seen since 1968, perhaps, that this book can be a tool for educators and parents to try to give that lesson to their children about acceptance. It's very important for the children to know that it's okay to be different. It is typical the book that the adults will loved to read, it gives them a little reflection of themselves. The illustrator, David Lee Csicsko, also says that the book is a “really gentle way to talk about important issues.<ref>Vitali, Marc (2020). [https://news.wttw.com/2020/07/06/childrens-book-the-skin-you-live-in-chicago Children’s Book ‘The Skin You Live In’ Back in the Spotlight]. Retrieved on January 1, 2021.</ref> |
== References == | == References == | ||
[[Category: Anti - Black Racism in Children's Story Book]] | [[Category: Anti - Black Racism in Children's Story Book]] |
Revision as of 12:27, 27 February 2021
The Skin You Live In is children's picture book written by Michael Tyler and illustrated by David Lee Csicsko. Published by Chicago Children’s Museum in 2005, this delightful picture book offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, The Skin You Live In delivers an important message about race, inclusion, and social acceptance to young readers.[1]
Plot
The Skin You Live In explores the concept of skin to encourage self-esteem and to celebrate the ways in which children are both unique and similar. While Csicsko's joyful, unique art, which takes imbalanced with proportion and point of view, shows children of diversities of skin colors engaged in different activities, the narrative encourages readers to look at their skin.
"The skin you have fun in it; the skin that you hop , skip and jump in the sun in, the skin that you run in it;." By pointing out what color the skin is not , subsequent verses affably emphasize that skin should not be discriminated "It's not dumb skin or clever skin, or keep us separate skin, or weak skin or super skin, I'm correct and you're not correct skin." Portraying four smiling children, the concluding spread declares, "when we stand by each other side in our wonderful hues... We all make a beauty, so amazingly true. We are special and different and just the same, too!" The sentences that uses food-related metaphors as it pays tribute to skin tones: "Your coffee and cream skin, your warm cocoa dream skin... Your chocolate chip, double dip sundae supreme skin!" [2]
Anti-racism value
The author, Michael Taylor, mentioned that ‘The Skin You Live In’ was written to promote self acceptance, and he thinks that by writing thid book right now where we’ve seen division on a magnitude that we haven’t seen since 1968, perhaps, that this book can be a tool for educators and parents to try to give that lesson to their children about acceptance. It's very important for the children to know that it's okay to be different. It is typical the book that the adults will loved to read, it gives them a little reflection of themselves. The illustrator, David Lee Csicsko, also says that the book is a “really gentle way to talk about important issues.[3]
References
- ↑ The Skin You Live In. Retrieved on January 1, 2021.
- ↑ The Skin You Live In. Retrieved on January 1, 2021.
- ↑ Vitali, Marc (2020). Children’s Book ‘The Skin You Live In’ Back in the Spotlight. Retrieved on January 1, 2021.