What do you think?
Rate this book
Mixed Critters
Paperback available through Amazon.com
Take a peek inside the imagination of animation director, Jeff Chiba Stearns, as he blends animals together to create fantastically mixed critters from A to Z!
Inspired by his own multiracial background, MIXED CRITTERS is a children’s book by author and illustrator Jeff Chiba Stearns that serves as an introduction to mixed race identity through the blending of various animals. Chiba Stearns, created this ABC picture book as a way to help educate readers, like his mixed daughter Yuki, to be proud of their multiethnic heritage. Through the various depictions of hybrid animals from A to Z, young readers are encouraged to discover and discuss their own mixed ancestries with their parents.
Chiba Stearns, who is also an award-winning and Emmy nominated filmmaker, often focuses his work on multiethnic identity as seen in his feature length documentaries One Big Hapa Family (2010) and Mixed Match (2016). In 2011, Chiba Stearns also helped co-found the Hapa-palooza Festival, Canada’s largest cultural festival celebrating mixed heritage. With multiethnic people becoming the fastest growing demographic in North America and with the extreme lack of media and books exploring mixed race identity, it was it was of great importance for Chiba Stearns to create MIXED CRITTERS as a way to introduce children to notions of racial mixing and blending in an accessible and creative way.
Take a peek inside the imagination of animation director, Jeff Chiba Stearns, as he blends animals together to create fantastically mixed critters from A to Z!
Inspired by his own multiracial background, MIXED CRITTERS is a children’s book by author and illustrator Jeff Chiba Stearns that serves as an introduction to mixed race identity through the blending of various animals. Chiba Stearns, created this ABC picture book as a way to help educate readers, like his mixed daughter Yuki, to be proud of their multiethnic heritage. Through the various depictions of hybrid animals from A to Z, young readers are encouraged to discover and discuss their own mixed ancestries with their parents.
Chiba Stearns, who is also an award-winning and Emmy nominated filmmaker, often focuses his work on multiethnic identity as seen in his feature length documentaries One Big Hapa Family (2010) and Mixed Match (2016). In 2011, Chiba Stearns also helped co-found the Hapa-palooza Festival, Canada’s largest cultural festival celebrating mixed heritage. With multiethnic people becoming the fastest growing demographic in North America and with the extreme lack of media and books exploring mixed race identity, it was it was of great importance for Chiba Stearns to create MIXED CRITTERS as a way to introduce children to notions of racial mixing and blending in an accessible and creative way.
- GenresFiction
28 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2018
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
June 30, 2018
This is a wonderful book. The drawings are really funny and imaginative. The book is not just for kids but adults, especially those who love animals, would also find it very, very entertaining. I see a feature length movie and a whole line of plush toys coming. This is a must read for parents looking for something refreshing to share with their kids.
June 20, 2018
I loved writing and illustrating my first children's book! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do and it makes you and your children smile! Please order hardcover copies of Mixed Critters at www.meditatingbunny.com/shop Use promo code 'mixed' to save 10% per book!
November 18, 2019
Great illustrations! My five year old daughter absolutely loves this book. Her favourite is the otterfly. It was fun to meet the author and get a signed copy at the Nikkei craft and bake market today. She read the book to her bachan when we got home.
June 20, 2018
I loved writing and illustrating my first children's book! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do and it makes you and your children smile!
July 27, 2018
This is a well-read book at our childcare and we highly recommend it!
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews