Love the Skin You're In!

The Skin You Live In

Written by Michael Tyler

Illustrated by David Csicsko

Chicago Children's Museum, 2005

32 Pages

Diverse Perspectives

            Everyone who is anyone has skin! Skin can come in all different colors. This book is all about the things that we do in our skin. We can laugh in our skin, we can cry in our skin, and we can even play in our skin. We all do so many different things in our skin, so why should our skin determine who we are and what we can achieve?

           

            The illustrations for this book are very cute and creative. They seem to be drawings and watercolors of kids with different skin tones.

            An activity idea that I had for kindergarten science would be to cut a green and red apple in half horizontally to reveal a “star” that the seed formation makes. I would explain to the children that even though the apples have different colored skin, both the apples still have the same star on the inside just like they do!