by Christian Trimmer; illustrations by Mike Curato
When a puggle meets two new poodle friends, there is a question the poodles feel they must ask.
What are you?
What am I?
Yes, what are you?
I am a dog.
No, what are you?
So begins a conversation about family and identity, and about the things we're good at... and why we're good at them.
Brimming with warmth and playfulness, What Are You? is an exemplary picture book for early readers. Equally funny and thoughtful, the book includes prompts to facilitate important first conversations about stereotypes and bias between child and adult.
From Christian Trimmer and award-winning illustrator Mike Curato comes What Are You?, a brilliant, new early-reader picture book brimming with warmth and playfulness that explores questions of race and identity.
What Are You?
Christian Trimmer is a children's book writer and editor. He is the author of Simon's New Bed, Teddy's Favorite Toy, Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies, and Wombat, the Reluctant Hero. He lives with his husband in Hillsdale, New York.
Mike Curato is the award-winning author and illustrator of the Little Elliot series and Where is Bina Bear?, and has also illustrated a number of other books for children. Mike lives in Northampton, MA with his Jack Russell beagle mix pup, Leia.
ISBN: 9781250786029
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 18, 2022Target Age Group: 03 to 06
Pages: 48
-Puggles -Poodles
-Dogs -Identity (Psychology)
-Stereotypes(Social psychology) -Identity
-Stereotypes -Animal fiction
-Picture books