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It's Just Skin, Silly!
by Holly Y. McGee, Nina Jablonski
Age: 1st-3rd grade
Body: Skin
Identity: Skin color
Identity, co-author: African American
Nonfiction: Evolution, Anatomy
Tough Issue: Racism
A perfect narrative nonfiction balance between an engaging protagonist (Epi Dermis), inviting participation directed at the listener, and descriptive text about our skin. Jablonski provides a delicate balance between scientific facts about our varying skin tones while briefly including negative societal influences that cause mean thoughts and racism.
Each page was informative and engaging. This will make an excellent discussion tool for the classroom and at home! However, and it pains me to say this because the book achieves such a great dissemination of anatomy and history, the book bends into the dismissive, colorblindness attitude that "it's just skin, silly" which ignores the reactive push of POC to celebrate and take pride in their skin color.
Body: Skin
Identity: Skin color
Identity, co-author: African American
Nonfiction: Evolution, Anatomy
Tough Issue: Racism
A perfect narrative nonfiction balance between an engaging protagonist (Epi Dermis), inviting participation directed at the listener, and descriptive text about our skin. Jablonski provides a delicate balance between scientific facts about our varying skin tones while briefly including negative societal influences that cause mean thoughts and racism.
Each page was informative and engaging. This will make an excellent discussion tool for the classroom and at home! However, and it pains me to say this because the book achieves such a great dissemination of anatomy and history, the book bends into the dismissive, colorblindness attitude that "it's just skin, silly" which ignores the reactive push of POC to celebrate and take pride in their skin color.