Happy in Our Skin

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond Village Library, Raymond, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 21, 2015

Review

A book all about skin.

"This is how we all begin; small and happy in our skin."

When you fall you get scabs and skin has freckles, birthmarks and dimples. And everyone is the same in that way because everyone has skin. One thing that is different is that "nobody is you"

Illustrations are bright and colorful with busyness going on continually and everyone smiling, getting along and helping one another out. A favored picture is one of a Block Party where there are:

"bouquets of people, blooming and boisterous, brawny and thin, loving each day...

Semi-rhyming book with illustrations done in ink and pencil and assembled digitally.

Great book for teaching a child that in many many ways we are all just the same with unique differences and qualities.

Recommend.

Overall Book Score: very good