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A beautiful book about community and love by National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Alexandra Boiger.
ME can be WE. YOU can come, too. In a lyrical text that travels the globe, National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine shows young readers how the whole world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different. With stunning, cinematic art by Alexandra Boiger, the illustrator of the She Persisted series, this is the perfect read-aloud at bedtime or for story time. Perfect for fans of All Are Welcome and Be Kind .
Praise for All of Us -
* " In this book about global inclusivity . . . the breathtaking art carries the message throughout." -- Booklist , starred review
* "This simple yet beautiful book reminds readers that they are not alone. . . . Children will find something different -every time they read the poem, and feel cherished by the message of openness." -- School Library Journal , starred review
"A lyrical celebration of unity and diversity . . . Purely sweet." -- Kirkus Reviews
"This picture book offers an uplifting vision for a unified world." -- Publishers Weekly
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2--This simple yet beautiful book reminds readers that they are not alone. With a boy in a yarmulke praying to his hands, and a child next to him on a prayer rug, bowed in the Islamic manner, the book shows how differences need not be divisive, and that commonalities are everywhere.The story starts out with just one girl, "Me," and expands with one child after another, who have various hair colors and skin tones, until it presents the entire earth, stylized, with pyramids in landscapes right next to Western cities. The book cycles back to the original child: "All kinds of kids, thoughtful and free. Sometimes in groups, sometimes … just me." The illustrations sweepingly display different countries, celebrations, and people. VERDICT Children will find something different every time they read the poem, and feel cherished by the message of openness.--Elizabeth Willoughby, John P. Faber Sch., Dunellen, NJ
Publisher's Weekly Review
Erskine's spare text, relayed in a collective first-person narration, describes how people from all walks of life can come together. "Hearts can unite./ Hands can set free," one spread reads, portraying a sloop filled with children sailing into a body of water followed by a wake of hearts. "Words can be heard./ We can all be," the next spread finishes, with the craft sailing through a watery archway of hearts, overlaid with "love" in various languages. Lighthearted pencil art by Boiger shows children of varying abilities, religions, sizes, and skin tones praying, making music, and playing together, while gentle washes render various cities and natural landscapes. While it's less a cohesive story than a collection of optimistic expressions, this picture book offers an uplifting vision for a unified world. Ages 4--8. (May)
Booklist Review
This book about global inclusivity opens with a series of images of seven children--a nod to the earth's seven continents--in a verdant setting, all gathering to play around blue balloons. Their group represents different genders, races, sizes, and physical ability, with the accompanying refrain of "Different, the same, we all belong." Boiger's stunning, fantastical illustrations, done in pencil and rendered in Photoshop, take readers on a voyage that begins with a wild-haired girl suspended on a swing over the varied Eastern architecture of a desert city. The girl shares her balloon with a boy, providing the trigger for moving from me to we, as Erskine's rhyming couplets tell us, and then to "you can come, too," with the art expanding ever outward. After we see the seven children playing hopscotch on rectangles that each carry a symbol for a continent, we zoom out to a flyover on a magic boat. The flight gives a thrilling global perspective--over oceans, deserts, mountains, cities. Love is the core of the voyage, made manifest as the boat, trailing hearts in its wake, sails through an arch composed of the word love in different languages, including Swahili, Somali, and Hebrew. The breathtaking art carries the message throughout.