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Helping Kids Relate: Acceptance
These stories promote the importance of accepting others - even those who are different from you.
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  Cover Art: I'm Like You You're Like Me : a Book About Understanding and Appreciating Each other Gainer, Cindy.
I'm Like You You're Like Me : a Book About Understanding and Appreciating Each other
Illustrations and simple text explore ways in which children are alike and different from each other. Adding specific ways they can all get along and feel accepted makes it fun.
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: All the Colors of the Earth Hamanaka, Sheila.
All the Colors of the Earth
Reveals in verse that despite outward differences, children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Who's in My Family? : All About Our Families Harris, Robie H.
Who's in My Family? : All About Our Families
Nellie and her little brother Gus discuss all kinds of families during a day at the zoo and dinner at home with their relatives afterwards.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School Mackintosh, David.
Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School
Marshall Armstrong is new to school and definitely stands out from the crowd. So when he invites everyone in class over for his birthday party, it's sure to be a disaster. Or is it?
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Spork Maclear, Kyo
Spork
Spork sticks out. In his kitchen, spoons are spoons and forks are forks. Mixing is uncommon. Being both fork and spoon makes him different and often he is not chosen from the cutlery drawer until one day...
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: It's Okay to be Different Parr, Todd.
It's Okay to be Different
Illustrations and brief text describe all kinds of differences that are "okay," such as "It's okay to be a different color," "It's okay to need some help," "It's okay to be adopted," and "It's okay to have a different nose."
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Grunt Richardson, John
Grunt
Teased by his older siblings about his appearance and tiny squeal, a little piggy finds acceptance with an equally odd-looking companion who teaches him to celebrate his differences and recognize that others will appreciate his uniqueness, too.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Shades of People Rotner, Shelley.
Shades of People
Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: A Very Big Bunny Russo, Marisabina.
A Very Big Bunny
Amelia is so big that she is always last in line at school and none of the other students will play with her, but a special new classmate teaches her that size is not always the most important thing.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Square Cat Schoonmaker, Elizabeth
Square Cat
Eulah the cat is square and, while she longs to be round like other cats, her friends show her the benefits of the shape that she has.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Oliver Sif, Birgitta
Oliver
Oliver is different - he enjoys his solitude. He likes playing with his friends, who are puppets, stuffed animals, and other toys. But maybe toys don't always give a boy everything he needs. Maybe he needs another kind of companion. Will Oliver discover a way to be, well, different? When his tennis ball rolls across the lawn into the yard of the girl next door, he just might be surprised.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: I'm Not Smallcomb, Pam
I'm Not
A young girl discovers that best friends can enjoy and do well at different things as long as they are good at being friends.
Easy Picture Book
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