Skin Again - Hardcover

Bell Hooks

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078680825X ISBN 13: 9780786808250

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2004

Synopsis

The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who i am You have got to come inside And open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, Skin Again offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other the treasures stored down deep. Learning to cherish those treasures, to be all we imagine ourselves to be, makes us free. Skin Again celebrates this freedom.

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About the Author

Chris Raschka's Hyperion titles includeHappy to Be Nappy, little tree, Be Boy Buzz,andSkin Again.HBFC has also published hisThingy Thingsseries, which includesMoosey Moose, Whaley Whale, Sluggy Slug,andDoggy Dog. Raschka's Yo! Yes?is a Caldecott Honor Book.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 4–As they did in Happy to Be Nappy (1999) and Be Boy Buzz (2002, both Hyperion), hooks and Raschka have created a verbal and visual celebration. This time the subject is skin, both what it is and, more importantly, what it is not. "The skin I'm in/is just a covering./If you want to know who I am/you have got to come inside/and open your heart way wide." While the message comes across loud and clear, the author's deft handling of language renders it gently persuasive rather than didactic. Raschka's impressionistic pictures amplify the theme as they shift from large, bold cartoons showing the outside of both white and black children, and then move to the inner patchwork of thoughts and feelings that make up "real" individuals. The illustrations will invite lengthy study, as Raschka shows the children passing through the various boxes as they reach inside to know each other and then come outside to see skin again with fresh eyes. Whether shared with a group or one-on-one, this is an excellent vehicle to initiate discussion on a sensitive and perennially important subject.–Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 078680825X
• ISBN 13: 9780786808250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Chris Raschka