"...designed to help parents talk candidly about colorism by providing them a skillfully written beautifully illustrated culturally relevant discussion guide."
Kristi Rangel
Chief, My Brother's Keeper
A City of Houston Health Department Initiative
"...language is warm and nourishing, and reading feels like being spoken to gently by a person with infinite patience and time for all of our questions. Soak up the beautiful, evocative illustrations of children..."
Anasthasia Higginbotham
Author/Illustrator, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
"Books like Different Differenter one are key to celebrating diversity and difference."
Sailaja N. Joshi
CEO and Founder of Bharat Babies
"...creatively weaves scholarly understandings of race as a social (not biological) construction that is based on history, social context and imposed ideologies (including stereotypes) into the activities."
Wendy Luttrell
Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
and Professor of Sociology and Critical Psychology, CUNY, NY
"I liked looking at the picture of the map, and I learned about stereotype."
Kaashvi
Student, Third Grade, Elementary School
"Engaging children on such issues will create a more equal and sensitive world. I think Different Differenter will trigger many important discussions."
Nandita Das
Actor, Director, Activist, and a supporter of Dark is Beautiful campaign
"...speaks to the dual worlds immigrant families often inhabit, maintaining the cultural practices of their ethnic identity with life in the United States."
April Kim Tonin
Director of Visual Education
The Nightingale-Bamford School (New York, NY)
"...does not shy away, instead she developed activities that pique a child's interest and offer teachers and parents the opportunity to use teachable moments..."
Olga Flores Chen, LCSW
Former school counselor
...subtle yet powerful introduction to the concept of colorism... provocative and sensitive activity book about skin color.
Ed Greene, PhD
VP, Children, Youth and Digital Media Literacy Initiatives
Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network
