Whoever You Are

Whoever You Are is written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Leslie Staub.

Multicultural Picture Book

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

4 out of 5

Although everyone around the world are very different they still share many emotions and events that bring everyone together such as, love, joy, and pain.

I like this book because it is a book everyone can relate to. I was able to relate to the feelings portrayed in this book, such as, pain, joys, laughs, because myself and everyone else feels these. I think this book is laid out in a way which makes it really easy to read; the font is large and the pages are not overcrowded with text. I really loved the illustrations. I like how just from the illustrations I am able to see where the people are from and how different their life is from mine. The illustrator also did a great job representing people from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. I also like the illustrations because each page is bordered in a intricate, beautiful gold and gem border. This book has a great multicultural perspective. It has several multicultural topics including race, work, lifestyle, school, language, environment, etc.

This book would be great in a primary elementary classroom. There are many topics you could teach young children about, including all the multicultural topics it discusses. These topics are important to teach students about because they are subjects they will face in everyday life and should now what is important to them about themselves and also that different cultural topics should be valued and understood. A mini-lesson that you could do in the classroom is to have the students make their own page to add to the book that says "_____ is the same", for example, "Smiles are the same". This activity will show what students have learned about different people and how they still have many similarities.