All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color / Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: La Historia de por que tenemos diferentes colores de piel
Illustrator
Wernher Krutein
Publisher
Redleaf Press
Publication Year
2014
ISBN
9781605540795
Pages
32 pages
Genre
nonfiction
Format
picture book
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.
Grade Level
PK-1
Lexile Measure
AD840L
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Biracial; Multiracial; biracial children; skin color; different races; multiracial community
Main Character
multiple
Race/Ethnicities
multiple
Family Formation
multiple
Awards
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
human skin color; race; sun; melanin; ancestors; science; bilingual (English/Spanish)
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Kissinger, Katie, "All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color / Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: La Historia de por que tenemos diferentes colores de piel" (2014). Diverse Families. 34.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/34