Skin again
(2017, original release: 2004)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
PICTURE/STORIES/HOOKS,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Los Angeles, CA ; New York, NY : Disney/Jump at the Sun, 2017
©2004
©2004
EDITION
First Paper-Over-Board edition
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781484799239, 1484799232
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"First hardcover edition, October 2004"--Title page verso
The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other the treasures stored down deep. Learning to cherish those treasures, to be all we imagine ourselves to be, makes us free