This book written by Michael Tyler and illustrated by David Lee Csicsko is n extraordinary book about diversity that does not have any awards, but should most certainly have. This book is targeted primarily for ages two through seven, but can have an effect on almost anyone. Many adults nowadays could even learn from the message of this book. Inside the cover of the book is a shortened nursery rhyme that sums up the books message of how we all live in different skin, but how we should love that skin and treat others with different skin since they are the same as us. Across from the nursery rhyme is a color pallet of many different skin pigments, giving the book a creative wordless introduction. The book starts with talking bout how great the skin you live in is, the skin you play in, dream in, and so on. The book then delves into skin color, but in terms kids can relate to, such as warm cocoa and double dip sundae supreme skin. The message is then made very clear towards the end as the author conveys that there is no best skin, no poor, mean, right, dumb, or right skin. The books end with telling how we are more than our skin color, but we are classified based on our dreams, our skills, and hopes. This a miraculous book I would say is not important for your bookshelves but essential. If you want to have a classroom that values diversity, you must have this book. This book teaches diversity in a way that kids can understand, rather than terms that are caught up in today’s political turmoil. This book is important because kids are just understanding each other’s differences based on appearance and are just starting to take in perceptions from parents and TV. It is vital or kids to understand this principal early on. Each page of this book contains kids of multiple different pigments, but they all describe similar thoughts and emotions. There are many different uses for this in the classroom, such as having the kid’s share what they perceive about others based on their look and why they hold that view. This could create a sense of enlightenment for the kids and the teacher as well. Having them draw a Venn diagram and putting races in the graphs, then showing how they all go in the middle, could be very helpful. There are a limitless mount of ways to teach kids diversity using this book, so I would therefore highly recommend this book. I, in fact am going to make sure there is always a copy of this book in my classroom.