All of Us
by Kathryn Erskine (Author) Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)
A beautiful book about community and love by National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Alexandra Boiger.
ME can be WE. YOU can come, too. In a lyrical text that travels the globe, National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine shows young readers how the whole world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different. With stunning, cinematic art by Alexandra Boiger, the illustrator of the She Persisted series, this is the perfect read-aloud at bedtime or for story time.
* [In this] book about global inclusivity . . . the breathtaking art carries the message throughout. --Booklist, starred review
* This simple yet beautiful book reminds readers that they are not alone. . . . Children will find something different every time they read the poem, and feel cherished by the message of openness. --School Library Journal, starred review
A lyrical celebration of unity and diversity . . . Purely sweet. --Kirkus Reviews
This picture book offers an uplifting vision for a unified world. --Publishers Weekly
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Erskine's spare text, relayed in a collective first-person narration, describes how people from all walks of life can come together. "Hearts can unite./ Hands can set free," one spread reads, portraying a sloop filled with children sailing into a body of water followed by a wake of hearts. "Words can be heard./ We can all be," the next spread finishes, with the craft sailing through a watery archway of hearts, overlaid with "love" in various languages. Lighthearted pencil art by Boiger shows children of varying abilities, religions, sizes, and skin tones praying, making music, and playing together, while gentle washes render various cities and natural landscapes. While it's less a cohesive story than a collection of optimistic expressions, this picture book offers an uplifting vision for a unified world. Ages 4-8. (May)
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K-Gr 2--This simple yet beautiful book reminds readers that they are not alone. With a boy in a yarmulke praying to his hands, and a child next to him on a prayer rug, bowed in the Islamic manner, the book shows how differences need not be divisive, and that commonalities are everywhere.The story starts out with just one girl, "Me," and expands with one child after another, who have various hair colors and skin tones, until it presents the entire earth, stylized, with pyramids in landscapes right next to Western cities. The book cycles back to the original child: "All kinds of kids, thoughtful and free. Sometimes in groups, sometimes ... just me." The illustrations sweepingly display different countries, celebrations, and people. VERDICT Children will find something different every time they read the poem, and feel cherished by the message of openness.--Elizabeth Willoughby, John P. Faber Sch., Dunellen, NJ
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This picture book offers an uplifting vision for a unified world. —Publishers Weekly
Keith Henry Brown began his artistic career in comics, went on to pursue painting, and later became creative director for Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has had a lifelong love of music, particularly jazz, and has illustrated many album covers for prominent jazz musicians. He is the father of two sons, and their relationships inspired much of his writing and art for My Dad Is a DJ. Keith lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kathryn Erskine is the National Book Award-winning author of Mockingbird along with several other novels for children and teens. Her first picture book, Mama Africa! How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, illustrated by Charly Palmer, received three starred reviews and won the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustration as well as the Africana Book Award.JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
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