One of These is Not Like the Others
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
One of these is not like that other--and that's great! This gently subversive picture book points out-- and celebrates!-- the differences between subjects.
Barney Saltzberg's hilarious and delightfully direct text and simple illustrations introduce children to the concept and splendor of inclusiveness, through recognizing who or what's different on each spread and celebrating the unity as it is.
For example, the reader sees three cows and an elephant accompanied by the text "One of these is not like the other," turn the page... and all four animals take part in an exuberant conga line and say "that's just fine with us"!
In a series of similar examples children are encouraged to notice both the similarities and differences between characters and celebrate both.
Barney Saltzberg's picture book is a pointed and timely tribute to the power of inclusivity and as well as a riotous read-aloud.
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Saltzberg (Dog and Rabbit) puts a winsome spin on the spot-the-difference concept while sending, with humor, the missive that diversity and collaboration are to be unequivocally celebrated. Repetition drives home the message, as the titular words introduce three similar but not always identical items alongside one distinctly different one (three cows and one elephant, three dogs and a cat), before a flip of the page reveals the members of each quartet interacting happily. The author matches wordplay and pictures; three pigs and a wolf form a band ("And that's the way we rock") and three rabbits pile onto a bicycle ("And that's the way we roll"). Saltzberg inserts subtle and some not-so-subtle variations into his depictions of the look-alikes (divergent rolling of eyeballs or positioning of tails), allowing kids to spot what's different even among like images. A scenario revealing all the characters eyeing each other skeptically ("Some of us are a little different") gives way to a final, jubilant spread in which all agree, "And that's the way we like it!"Ages 2 5.
