We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street Series)

by Bobbi Kates, Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)

Overview

Illustrated in full color. The colorful characters from Sesame Street teach

young children about racial harmony. Muppets, monsters, and humans compare

noses, hair, and skin and realize how different we all are. But as they look

further, they also discover how much we are alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679832270
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	04/28/1996
Series:	Sesame Street Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	8,613
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	150L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets cavort cheerfully with people of all sizes, shapes and ethnicities in this rather humdrum effort to show the ways in which all people are the same, despite obvious physical differences. On alternate spreads, drawings imitating photos zero in on variations on noses, hair, mouths, skin, eyes and bodies, all ``different'' from one another. A turn of the page reveals all of the owners of these body parts interacting, alongside several lines of sing-song verse explaining how our noses, hair, etc., are ``the same.'' Some of the rhymes are silly or forced; part of the explanation of skin reads: ``Muscles and bones are wrapped inside it. / We all have blood and skin to hide it!'' Even the affable Sesame Street gang can't enliven this mundane treatment of a significant subject. Ages 4-8. (Nov.)

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