Winner of multiple book awards, including a Reading Rainbow selection, Bein' With You This Way celebrares diversity plain and simple. Illustrator Michael Bryant captures children of all races and ethnicities playing in their neighborhood park. An uplifting message delivered with a highly rhythmic text. Ask your local bookstore to order a copy for you, or click on one of the online booksellersw below.
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Individual differences are celebrated with a lilting, repetitive verse. Bryant's full-page, ginger-toned watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations give the book its bouyancy and warmth. Ages 2-8. Publishers Weekly
An exuberant story. The cheerful faces and colorful scenes in Bryant's vibrant paintings harmonize so well with the bouncy rapping that children will clamor for an immediate reread. Kirkus Reviews
[An] ode to the beauty of diversity. School Library Journal
This fast-paced, cheerful, rap story is multicultural literature at its best. Child Magazine
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Title: Bein' With You This Way
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Illustrator: Michael Bryant
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Interest Level: 4-8 Years Old
Grade Level: preK-3
Language: English
Page Count: 32
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD
Paperback ISBN: 978-1880000267
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0785780021
Live Oak Media Audio CD: 978-1591123996
Amazon Rating: 4.5 stars
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I published Bein' With You This Way early in my career, and it made a big splash, so much so that it shaped many of the books that I published afterwards, books with a multicultural theme. These include Can You Top That?, America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land, Summer Sun Risin', and the Christopher award-winning How We Are Smart, which presents the theory of multiple intelligences through the lens of multiculturalism. When it comes to Bein' With You This Way, I'm happy to report that, after 30 years, it is still in print and still making an engaging read-aloud for parents, teachers, and caretakers of all backgrounds.
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