Title: One World, One Day
Author: Barbara Kerley
Type: Non-Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-6th
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Date of Publication: May 12, 2009
ISBN: 978-1426304606
Synopsis: Sparse prose accompanied by typical National Geographic style photos detailing how children around the word go through a typical day. The message is that we all do the same types of things during the day though we may do them in different ways.
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Possible Teaching Points: 1) diversity, 2) routines
Title: The Skin You Live In
Author: Michael Tyler
Illustrator: David Lee Csicsko
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-3rd
Publisher: Chicago Children's Museum
Date of Publication: 2005
ISBN: 0-9759580-0-3
Synopsis: Fanciful rhyming text highlights the many ways in which people use their skin, and the many shades that it can come in. Ultimately teaches the lesson that we are much more than just our skin.
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Possible Teaching Points: 1) diversity
Title: I Am America
Author: Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Type: Non-Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-6
Publisher: Cartwheel
Date of Publication: July 1, 2003
ISBN: 04309431794
Synopsis: A series of photographs depicting what American children look like, dress like, and act like accompanied by a prose-like text.
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Possible Teaching Points: 1) diversity, 2) America
