All the Colors of the Earth
This story, written as a poem, points out that although children's skin color differs, children everywhere share many similarities and all children are lovable.
Resources: self-concept
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I Am America
Through portrait photographs and rhyming lines of poetry, this book explores students' identities and roles. It emphasizes how people of a variety of backgrounds make up the mosaic that is the United States.
I Love My Hair
Keyana's head hurts when Mama performs the nightly ritual of combing Keyana'a thick, soft, curly, black hair. Keyana doesn't feel lucky at the beginning of the story, but she learns to value her hair as part of her identity and to feel lucky that she can wear it any way she chooses.
