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4.42 AVERAGE
Really liked this, and it's done in OpenDyslexic font. Illustrations by Rafael Lopez.
Booklist review:
*Starred Review* In this inviting picture book, 12 friends are planting a garden. Each child is distinct in appearance and personality, but other differences are harder to see or to understand. Seven-year-old Sonia tells of pricking her finger to measure her blood sugar and giving herself insulin shots to manage diabetes, which she briefly explains. Next, Rafael talks about having asthma and using an inhaler when he has trouble breathing. Ten more children in succession talk about their wheelchair, blindness, deafness, dyslexia, autism, stuttering, Tourette’s syndrome, ADHD, nut allergy, or Down syndrome. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who began giving herself insulin shots at age seven, offers an amiable, matter-of-fact text in which each child handles a challenge with courage and grace. Created with pencil, watercolor, and acrylic, then digitally manipulated, the vibrant artwork celebrates these self-assured kids, shown working, communicating, and interacting with nature. The garden becomes a metaphor for a community where “all the ways we are different make our neighborhood—our whole world really—more interesting and fun.” Along the way, Sotomayor quietly encourages those who don’t understand someone else’s differences to “just ask” that person or a parent. Addressing topics too often ignored, this picture book presents information in a direct and wonderfully child-friendly way. Preschool-Grade 3.
Booklist review:
*Starred Review* In this inviting picture book, 12 friends are planting a garden. Each child is distinct in appearance and personality, but other differences are harder to see or to understand. Seven-year-old Sonia tells of pricking her finger to measure her blood sugar and giving herself insulin shots to manage diabetes, which she briefly explains. Next, Rafael talks about having asthma and using an inhaler when he has trouble breathing. Ten more children in succession talk about their wheelchair, blindness, deafness, dyslexia, autism, stuttering, Tourette’s syndrome, ADHD, nut allergy, or Down syndrome. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who began giving herself insulin shots at age seven, offers an amiable, matter-of-fact text in which each child handles a challenge with courage and grace. Created with pencil, watercolor, and acrylic, then digitally manipulated, the vibrant artwork celebrates these self-assured kids, shown working, communicating, and interacting with nature. The garden becomes a metaphor for a community where “all the ways we are different make our neighborhood—our whole world really—more interesting and fun.” Along the way, Sotomayor quietly encourages those who don’t understand someone else’s differences to “just ask” that person or a parent. Addressing topics too often ignored, this picture book presents information in a direct and wonderfully child-friendly way. Preschool-Grade 3.
Beautiful illustrations and powerful, encouraging words to show that everyone is different and amazing in their own way.
This book focuses on children with disabilities/chronic conditions and how these differences make them unique. It also focuses on the idea that when we wonder why someone does something differently, we should just ask! This is a lovely story with beautiful illustrations that helps to destigmatize differences and disabilities.
A co-worker shared this book with me before it officially hit our shelves, and what an experience U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's "Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You" turned out to be!
A beautiful, colorful, diverse, and encouraging "call and response" style of children's picture book, that motivates children to just ask and in return learn more about their peers who might stand out for physical, mental, and emotional reasons. It shows the younger audience that by asking certain questions in certain ways that we can grow a garden of knowledge and acceptance.
I hope every public, school, and personal library will let the children they serve and support flip through these pages and grow wiser and kinder through the dialogue and words. I will make sure a copy is included in my classroom.
A beautiful, colorful, diverse, and encouraging "call and response" style of children's picture book, that motivates children to just ask and in return learn more about their peers who might stand out for physical, mental, and emotional reasons. It shows the younger audience that by asking certain questions in certain ways that we can grow a garden of knowledge and acceptance.
I hope every public, school, and personal library will let the children they serve and support flip through these pages and grow wiser and kinder through the dialogue and words. I will make sure a copy is included in my classroom.
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🎧𝕁𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝔸𝕤𝕜🎧
By Sonia Sotomayer
This is a picture book, I'd like to see the paperback version of this as I listened to the audio instead!
This children's book has an important message!
We live in a world of diversity, everyone is different, and everyone approaches their day in their own unique way.
This book cleverly shows children that sometimes people need medicine to help them, for example, insulin for diabetes or an inhaler for an asthmatic. Some people may need a wheelchair to help keep them mobile. It makes you aware of ADHD, autism, blindness, deafness and how each person may use their senses or their hands to communicate.
This is a gentle and loving book that allows children to 'just ask' if they are unsure about how to help and support individuals around them.
Children naturally play alongside one another, and they don't tend to notice any differences in others until they are older and adults have influences on their understanding and opinions, it is important for children to not shy away from people and to ask questions if they don't understand.
On a side note, I do think that all schools should teach sign language just like we have foreign language lessons, this would be absolutely wonderful!
A gorgeous book!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me! 🤓
By Sonia Sotomayer
This is a picture book, I'd like to see the paperback version of this as I listened to the audio instead!
This children's book has an important message!
We live in a world of diversity, everyone is different, and everyone approaches their day in their own unique way.
This book cleverly shows children that sometimes people need medicine to help them, for example, insulin for diabetes or an inhaler for an asthmatic. Some people may need a wheelchair to help keep them mobile. It makes you aware of ADHD, autism, blindness, deafness and how each person may use their senses or their hands to communicate.
This is a gentle and loving book that allows children to 'just ask' if they are unsure about how to help and support individuals around them.
Children naturally play alongside one another, and they don't tend to notice any differences in others until they are older and adults have influences on their understanding and opinions, it is important for children to not shy away from people and to ask questions if they don't understand.
On a side note, I do think that all schools should teach sign language just like we have foreign language lessons, this would be absolutely wonderful!
A gorgeous book!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me! 🤓