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What Are You?

Christian Trimmer

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 18th, 2022
  • Pages: 48
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.26in - 9.35in - 0.47in - 1.10lb
  • EAN: 9781250786029
  • Recommended age: 04-08
  • Categories: • Social Themes - Friendship• Diversity & Multicultural• Animals - Dogs

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About the Author

Trimmer, Christian: - Christian Trimmer is a children's book writer and editor. He is the author of numerous picture books, including Teddy's Favorite Toy, Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies, What Are You?, and Wombat, the Reluctant Hero . He lives with his husband in Hillsdale, New York. Learn more at christiantrimmer.com.
Curato, Mike: - Mike Curato is the award-winning author and illustrator of the Little Elliot series and the graphic novel Flamer, and has illustrated a number of other books for children, including What If... (by Samantha Berger), Worm Loves Worm, and All the Way to Havana.

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Praise for this book

"Curato's cartoonish dogs in soft colors give an inviting look to this story about a conversation that will be all too familiar to many kids, and the final pages, showing a trio of children having a similar conversation, drive that point home. A discussion guide closes out the book, providing caregivers with some advice for facilitating conversations about interracial identities and stereotypes with young children." - Booklist