We All Have a Heritage (People (Culture Co-Op)) (Hardcover)
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-This book by the author/illustrator team that created the thought-provoking and effective Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? (Culture CO-OP, 1998) is not as successful. Ink-and-watercolor paintings and rhymed text attempt to introduce children to cultural commonalities and differences. The message “We all have a Heritage,/yes this is true./It doesn’t matter if your skin is black, white,/yellow, brown, red, purple or blue” is repeated throughout the book. Several of the rhymes are forced and awkward. The text does not identify any of the objects or ethnic groups portrayed in the illustrations. The colorful full-page paintings include such a hodgepodge of items that most children will be more confused than enlightened, even with adult explanation. While obviously well intentioned, this book offers too simplistic and didactic a treatment of a complex and important subject to be useful. For books that create awareness and appreci (more…)
