This was a very inspiring picture book. It followed a little girl April through a week that was leading up to a visit to her grandmothers house. It talked about how things were the same as her, yet they were different as well. It talked about deaf children who were talking using sign language and the page had the hand motions for the letters in sign language. It also talked about someone being blind and having a service dog and using braille to read with their hands. On the page it had braille numbers so the reader could feel how the blind read. The author wrote this book after her daughter was diagnosed with vitiligo, which causes white spots to form on the skin. It is very true that everyone is different in many ways, but we are all alike in ways as well. As I was reading this book, I thought about how children see others and that sometimes they stare at people who are different than they are. It is important for us as adults to talk about how they are the same as we are as well and not just focus on the differences. The pictures in this book were amazing, but one thing that I noticed was most of the pages the only things that are in color are the people. The background and other objects in the picture have no color, but the people have full color. It is like this until they arrive at grandmothers house and then the entire picture is in color. I think she did this to really show us as the reader that people are people and are alike in many ways.
This book would be great to use in the classroom. There is a game that the author puts in the beginning called "Same and Different." You take an object for example fish and talk about how they are the same and then also list their differences. It would be a great game to play in class and a way for children to see how they are the same as their classmates, but different as well. It will help them see that being different from others isn't a bad thing.
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