The Color of Your Skin

(Paperback)

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An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children. Like a multicolor pencil palette, what defines human beings is their uniqueness and their diversity.

Vega and her colored pencils are inseparable. Together they create the most impressive drawings that are showcased in the best museum in the world: the refrigerator at home. Vega uses all the colors you can imagine for her drawings: red, yellow, blue, gold, and more.One day at school, Vega is immersed in one of her new creations when her friend Alex stops by, and peers into the box of pencils Vega had on her table. Can you lend me the skin-colored pencil, please he asks.Skin-coloredWith curiosity and creativity they explore the diversity skin tones of the people around them, and discover that the skin-color can have not just one, but a thousand shades.

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The Color of Your Skin is a beautiful picture book in which the protagonists discover that the skin-color has more than one shade and that diversity enriches us in a world where there is room for all races and colors. Infantilandia

Author and illustrator team Desire Acevedo and Silvia lvarez have produced a beautiful exploration of the colors of humanity. The illustrations are colorful and rich and the story is detailed and thought provoking. Above all the text strives to impart the message that skin-tone isnt just one color, its many. School Library Connection

A vibrant picture book, where the expressiveness of each brushstroke takes us even deeper into the story. Fantastic for introducing topics like racism, diversity, coexistence. Undoubtedly an important book to share both at home and in the classroom for its thought-provoking and enriching content. La Cuentera Respetuosa

Author Bio

Desire Acevedois a Spanish illustrator born in Huelva. Passionate about drawing since she held a pencil in her hand for the first time, everything suggested that she would study some artistic degree, but she graduated in Teaching. That is the reason her picture books combine her three passions: writing stories, illustrating them, and the timeless lessons that books offer. Acevedo now lives in Seville, where she has participated in several courses on illustration, drawing techniques, narrative and one specifically on the creative process of the picture book. She has published more than 20 picture books. Silvia lvarezis an award-winning illustrator born in the tropical coastal city of La Ceiba, Honduras, by a Honduran father and a Spanish mother. At the age of seven she moved to Spain now living in Seville where she graduated in Fine Arts. She was awarded Gold Medal at the International Latino Book Awards for her artwork inDaisy(Cuento de Luz, 2017).