Buying Options
Print List Price: | CDN$ 10.25 |
Kindle Price: | CDN$ 8.99 Save CDN$ 1.26 (12%) |
includes free international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet | |
Sold by: | Macmillan CA This price was set by the publisher. |

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer – no Kindle device required. Learn more
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
Using your mobile phone camera, scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
The Colors of Us Kindle Edition
Karen Katz (Author, Illustrator) Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author |
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades.
Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.
Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.
- Reading age4 - 8 years
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 3
- PublisherHenry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Publication dateOct. 6 2020
- ISBN-13978-0805058642
- Kindle (5th Generation)
- Kindle Keyboard
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)
- Kindle Touch
- Kindle
- Kindle Oasis
Product description
From School Library Journal
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
From Booklist
About the Author
Review
From Kirkus Reviews
Product details
- ASIN : B08HXNGLGL
- Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); First edition (Oct. 6 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 7348 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Not enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Not Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 32 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #393,874 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Check out my newest book WIGGLE YOUR TOES! A Book to pull,fluff, and wiggle!
I have always been interested in folk art from around the world, Indian miniatures, Mexican ceramics, fabrics, Chagall, Matisse, children's art, and primitive painting, and I love to paint and experiment with pattern, texture, collage and color. The careers I've had--as a costume designer, a quilt maker, a fabric artist, and a graphic designer--have taken all these interests into account. Looking back, I can see that these passions and career choices have played a large part in influencing me to become a children's book author and illustrator.
But most importantly, it was after my husband and I adopted our daughter from Guatemala that I was inspired to do a children's book for her. My first book, Over the Moon, was the story of that magical experience of welcoming our daughter Lena into our lives. I painted, I drew, I collaged, and I wrote, and after working very hard... a beautiful book was born! Twenty-two books later, my daughter--now fourteen years old--still is an inspiration for me.
I am fascinated by babies and little kids. The simplest words and gestures can make them laugh. Sometimes standing in line at the supermarket and watching kids in grocery carts, my best ideas are born.
I am fascinated by people from all over the world and what they look like and how they live and the differences that make us all unique.
When an idea pops into my head I ask these questions:
Will a child want to read this book?
Will a parent want to read this book with their child?
Will this book make a parent and child feel something?
Is there something visual here that will hold a child's interest?
Will a child see something in a different way after reading this book?
If the answer is yes, then I know I'm on the right track.
I am very lucky to get to do what I do. Everyday I go into my studio and have fun. Don't get me wrong, some days are very frustrating. Sometimes the colors are all wrong and the words don't sound right. But after I work at it for a while...and try to do it a different way...and think...and change the words or colors...and try some more...suddenly, there it is--a great page of writing, or a great illustration. And nothing is more satisfying than that.
Customers who bought this item also bought
Customer reviews
Top reviews from Canada
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Wonderful!
Very sweet .
Top reviews from other countries


He loves the pictures as it relates to him in a big way.
He enjoys having the book read to him


