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No Difference Between Us: Teach children about gender equality, respectful relationships, feelings, choice, self-esteem, empathy, tolerance
Jess and Ben are twins. Jess is a girl and Ben is a boy but in all the BIG ways, there is NO difference between them!
Explore with the children in your care the important issues of gender equality and respectful relationships. Combining cheerful illustrations and a simple but effective narrative, this book will help children to understand that, fundamentally, there is no difference between us.
This book encourages equality and respect for each other from the earliest of years. In order to reduce gender-based violence we need to teach gender equality and respectful relationships to young children. What better way than through a picture storybook? Children are visual learners and the match between illustration and text in this story will assist them to understand that we are all human - everyone feels, and everyone has hopes and dreams. Our gender should be and needs to be irrelevant. Throughout the text, open-ended questions are provided on each spread so children have the opportunity to talk about their own experiences - allowing the child to have a voice. There are more in-depth Discussion Questions on pages 30 and 31 encouraging the reader and the child to think about each scenario, and engage with the message. “We’re all people with feelings, aspirations and dreams . . . no better or worse . . . it’s the little differences that make us unique but it doesn’t change the big ways that we are the same.”
Susannah Low Designer and mother of two daughters
Explore with the children in your care the important issues of gender equality and respectful relationships. Combining cheerful illustrations and a simple but effective narrative, this book will help children to understand that, fundamentally, there is no difference between us.
This book encourages equality and respect for each other from the earliest of years. In order to reduce gender-based violence we need to teach gender equality and respectful relationships to young children. What better way than through a picture storybook? Children are visual learners and the match between illustration and text in this story will assist them to understand that we are all human - everyone feels, and everyone has hopes and dreams. Our gender should be and needs to be irrelevant. Throughout the text, open-ended questions are provided on each spread so children have the opportunity to talk about their own experiences - allowing the child to have a voice. There are more in-depth Discussion Questions on pages 30 and 31 encouraging the reader and the child to think about each scenario, and engage with the message. “We’re all people with feelings, aspirations and dreams . . . no better or worse . . . it’s the little differences that make us unique but it doesn’t change the big ways that we are the same.”
Susannah Low Designer and mother of two daughters
34 pages, Hardcover
Published June 12, 2017
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November 26, 2024
This beautifully illustrated book thoughtfully compares and contrasts a boy and a girl, highlighting that the things they enjoy are no different only the ways they express them may vary. It's an excellent read for children ages 3 to 8, encouraging acceptance and understanding of one another's differences.
May 20, 2019
Cuốn sách trình bày rất đơn giản và rõ ràng. Mình nghĩ ngoài những câu chuyện trong cuốn sách có thể ứng dụng cho những câu chuyện bên ngoài rất tốt!
June 4, 2019
I found this a bit pointless to be honest. It just seemed to drag on and on.
April 15, 2021
I enjoyed the same/difference examples and the questions asked of the readers as we went.
But the way this presents gender as a binary doesn’t work for me.
But the way this presents gender as a binary doesn’t work for me.
November 2, 2017
No Difference Between Us, is a great book to read to children. This book is great when trying to teach children about Gender Equality, Respectful Relationships, and etc. The book has two characters whom are twins named Ben and Jess. Since they are a boy and a girl the books show that they love to do the similar things. No matter their sex, they see that their is no difference between the two of them. The book also promotes healthy and respect relationships among each other. The characters notices that there is no difference between them and learn to have respect for each other.
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