Listen to people who see things differently.
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When the class is asked what makes each family special, one child hesitates. Classmates describe families with different parents, caregivers and households, and the narrator remembers a foster mother telling the children they were all real children.
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Two picture sequences, read in opposite directions, follow families in Sydney and rural Morocco. The boys share chores and meals, and a rug sold by the Moroccan father and son ends up in the Australian home while the money buys a computer for theirs.
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Elliot in the United States and Kailash in India trade illustrated letters about their homes, how they get around and how they write. Each boy sees what is the same and what differs in the other’s life.
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Duncan finds letters from crayons that are unhappy about how they are used or ignored. Each has a different complaint, and he answers with a new drawing that gives them all different jobs.
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The duck voice and the rabbit voice each hold a reading, then each starts to see the other’s. Neither treats a first answer as final.
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Nana shows CJ another way to see the same bus ride, and he starts noticing the dignity of the people around them.
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We start with parent and educator recommendations, check available story details, and explain the value fit in our own words. The source link on each book shows where we found it.
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