We're better together A book about community

Eileen Spinelli

Book - 2021

The world is a better place when we work and play together.

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Subjects
Genres
Picture books
Board books
Published
Honesdale, PA : Highlights Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Eileen Spinelli (author)
Other Authors
Ekaterina Trukhan (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Cover title.
On board pages.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
Ages 2-5.
ISBN
9781644723289
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A tribute to human kindness, empathy, and mutual support. In double-page spreads on unusually large board-book pages, different scenarios present preschoolers with a variety of ways to demonstrate acting in concert. A White family, including a very large dog, works together to clean up a large kitchen spill. A group of diverse kids helps a White friend who uses a wheelchair find a lost blanket. Two children, one White and one with dark hair and medium-brown skin, help a brown-skinned, hijab-wearing grown-up retrieve toys dropped by a stroller-riding tyke. The art is graphically clean and clear, with simple cartoon faces and geometric swaths of solid colors against white backgrounds; clear attention has been paid to diversity of racial presentation, gender presentation, and ability. A child with cochlear implants with straight black hair and medium-brown skin can be seen in two of the spreads, and a White child with light-brown hair wears glasses--even, strangely enough, in bed. The project ends with the youngsters in bed dreaming of all the good accomplished during the day. The following page includes quotes from 5- and 6 year-olds and the author describing things they have done to make the world a better place. The didactic nature of the text gets laid on a bit thick with the repetition of the "We're better together…" refrain in every scene, but the lively art adds much-needed cheer. Useful and jolly. (Board book. 2-4) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.