From Christian Trimmer and award-winning illustrator Mike Curato comes What Are You?, a brilliant, new early-reader picture book brimming with warmth and playfulness that explores questions of race and identity.
When a puggle meets two new poodle friends, there is a question the poodles feel they must ask.
What are you?
What am I?
Yes, what are you?
I am a dog.
No, what are you?
So begins a conversation about family and identity, and about the things we're good at... and why we're good at them.
Brimming with warmth and playfulness, What Are You? is an exemplary picture book for early readers. Equally funny and thoughtful, the book includes prompts to facilitate important first conversations about stereotypes and bias between child and adult.
Kate Messner is a children's book author.
I had a chance to read Christian Trimmer & @MikeCurato's new picture book WHAT ARE YOU at @CCBF2022 last weekend - it's delightful and truly an essential title for elementary school readers. Really, for all of us. Mike's post today explains why: https://t.co/uTlQmlLULl
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Two of the most “othering” questions kids--or anyone--face are “Where are you from?” and “What Are You?” Christian Trimmer on Growing Up Biracial. https://t.co/5UKep7BXkG https://t.co/x9lHlnSbqB
National Jewish Book Awards finalist. ZHEN YU AND THE SNAKE and COUNTING ON NAAMAH out next. Ima to 5. Founded https://t.co/7VNnAKGeXD. Rep’d by @carynwiseman
Article:https://t.co/5ngJ13979g - “What Are You?” Christian Trimmer on Growing Up Biracial #SchoolLibraryJournal