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Publisher Description
From bestselling author Annie Barrows and Pura Belpré Honor award recipient Leo Espinosa, this funny yet thought-provoking picture book offers a sequence of outlandishly fun compare-and-contrasts that show how humans are much more like each other than we are different.
A NEW WAY OF SEEING: The use of comparison and contrast gives readers a new lens through which to see themselves and others.
HUMOR WITH HEART: Annie Barrows uses her trademarked humor to get readers laughing and thinking.
GREAT READ-ALOUD: The silly and surprising text is the perfect read-aloud for homes and classrooms.
Perfect for:ParentsGrandparentsGift-giversEducators
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As a child narrator, portrayed with light brown skin, muses on what things humans are "like," the whole world is delightfully up for grabs. People, the kid posits, are not at all like tin cans ("If you open up our lids, nothing good happens"), a little like swimming pools (all that water), more like mushrooms, less like excavators, and comparatively similar to hyenas. Every "like" has a catch, however—hyenas neither talk nor "get embarrassed, even when they're caught eating something off the ground." But people take similarity to a wholly different—and connective—level. Even factoring in differences, says the child, "I am more like you than I am like most of the things on Earth." (Even a mushroom.) Barrow's (the Ivy and Bean series) sweetly irreverent narrator should turn readers into eager students of classification, while—in illustrations that highlight humans of varying abilities, ages, body types, and skin tones—Espinosa's (The World Belonged to Us) poster-like colors and midcentury modern playfulness make this volume far more fun than any academic compare-and-contrast exercise. Ages 3–5. Author's agent: Liza Dawson, Liza Dawson Assoc.
