Hues of You
An Activity Book for Learning About the Skin You Are In
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Feb 22, 2022 | 64 Pages
ISBN: 9780593234631
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About Hues of You
Help children celebrate the incredible range of hues all around them with this activity book that provides an interactive, engaging, and age-appropriate way to navigate conversations around skin tone, race, and racism.
Every person’s skin has a particular shade—or hue—that we can appreciate. Children naturally wonder: Why are there so many skin colors? Why do I look a lot like some people and different from others? Which words best describe my skin color?
But sometimes we feel uncomfortable talking about skin tone, ethnicity, and race. That’s about to change! Inside these pages, kids will get to explore the ways each of us is uniquely designed and discover positive, creative ways to think and talk about the wonderful diversity of hues found in humanity.
Crafted by an experienced educator and advocate for antiracism, Hues of You is divided into four main sections: Hues of You, Hues of Your Family, Hues of Your Ancestors, and Hues of Your Friends. This activity book offers a smart and honest starting point to spark natural, effective, and meaningful conversations in our families, schools, and communities.
Every person’s skin has a particular shade—or hue—that we can appreciate. Children naturally wonder: Why are there so many skin colors? Why do I look a lot like some people and different from others? Which words best describe my skin color?
But sometimes we feel uncomfortable talking about skin tone, ethnicity, and race. That’s about to change! Inside these pages, kids will get to explore the ways each of us is uniquely designed and discover positive, creative ways to think and talk about the wonderful diversity of hues found in humanity.
Crafted by an experienced educator and advocate for antiracism, Hues of You is divided into four main sections: Hues of You, Hues of Your Family, Hues of Your Ancestors, and Hues of Your Friends. This activity book offers a smart and honest starting point to spark natural, effective, and meaningful conversations in our families, schools, and communities.
Product Details
64 pages | Published by WaterBrook
On Sale Date: Feb 22, 2022
Trim Size: 7 x 9
Carton Quantity: 40
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This activity book provides caregivers and kids a interactive, engaging, and age-appropriate way to navigate conversations around skin tone, race, and racism. Crafted by an experienced educator and advocate for antiracism, Hues of You offers a smart and honest starting point to help families, schools, and communities have natural, effective, and meaningful conversations with kids about skin tone and race. Divided into four main sections--Hues of You, Hues of Your Family, Hues of Your Ancestors, and Hues of Your Friends--each page gives kids space to explore their identity in a variety of social contexts, empowering them (and their parents and caregivers) to openly recognize, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of skin colors in the world around them.Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Chelsea Woodward, Publicist
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HUES OF YOU
By Dr. Lucretia Carter Berry
A WaterBrook Hardcover | On Sale 2/22/22
We live in a vibrant, colorful world, and though we enthusiastically teach our children the hues we find in nature and in the objects around us, we often find it difficult to teach them about the beauty of different skin tones.
Dr. Lucretia Berry, founder of Brownicity—a learning community dedicated to education and advocacy for antiracism—is often asked by parents, teachers, and caregivers how they can best approach this conversation with kids. In response, she created a fun and interactive tool that provides children and their adults a way to brave the shift from color blindness to color consciousness—HUES OF YOU: An Activity Book for Learning About the Skin You Are In (WaterBrook; on sale 2/22/22).
Filled with lively and bright full-color illustrations by Adia Carter, the book’s drawing and writing activities are divided into four main sections—Hues of You, Hues of Your Family, Hues of Your Ancestors, and Hues of Your Friends. Each page gives kids space to explore their identity in a variety of social contexts and to celebrate the diversity of skin tones in the world around them.
Adults who have felt hesitant or unprepared to talk with the children in their lives about skin tone, race, and ethnicity will find that Hues of You is the perfect starting point. With this engaging resource, they can help lay the groundwork for a more positive, affirming, and inclusive world.
In an interview, Dr. Berry can share:
- How to have meaningful conversations with kids about skin tone, race, and ethnicity
- Adults aren’t obligated to know all the answers; co-discovery is part of the learning journey
- Age-appropriate definitions for skin tone, hue, pigment, and melanin
- How Brownicity is promoting racial healing and antiracism
- Ways to celebrate Black History Month—it’s not just for people who identify as Black; it’s America’s history!
For more information, visit www.waterbrookmultnomah.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Lucretia Carter Berry is the founder of Brownicity (pronounced like ethnicity), an agency dedicated to racial healing and antiracism. She is also the anti-race/ism curriculum specialist for Community School of Davidson in North Carolina; a contributor to (in)courage; a speaker at TEDx Talk and Q Ideas Charlotte; a member of hope*writers; and a senior consultant for Point Made Learning's The American Dream Game. She and her husband, Nathan, are the parents of three little girls. For more information, visit www.brownicity.com.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:
Adia Carter has experienced a lifelong passion for drawing and is studying studio art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She feels that open discussion and the introduction of true and scientific information about race can be the gateway to a more accepting society—especially when dialogue about it is encouraged in the young.
