All Kinds of People

The book is great! But the title is not. How about All Colors Of People? I thought the whole point was having different colored skin doesn’t mean you’re a different kind of person…

These books are quality made and the photographs are exceptional. We like the inclusive, accepting message taught in this book specifically. Well done!

This is my daughter's favorite book. She is 15 months old, so some of the content may escape her, but she adores looking at the photographs of other young children (with which the book is filled.) My daughter is mixed race and she seems to especially appreciate the fact that the book truly does feature children of many different "shades" (the term the book uses); she seems to have identified with 2 other little girls pictured in the book and often points to their pictures and then to herself. I think the book is the best type of children's book: it discusses a complex topic at a pretty sophisticated level (the book acknowledges that we do all look different, but suggests that traditional racial categories are a terrible and destructive way to describe this difference), by using simple language that doesn't tax toddler attention spans. A really great addition to our library.

I was excited to get this book to help my young toddler begin to understand the many kinds of people we have in our community and world. But the color descriptions of people’s skin tone is a little weird for young toddlers. I wish the book wouldn’t focus so much on naming the skin tone color as such, rather focusing on more understandable descriptors for the younger kids. But I’m sure this works better for older kids.

This book is so lovely! It has really bright and vibrant pictures, it certainly showcases all different skin colors, and the pages about there being many colors within the same family makes me so happy (our family is like that!). It is my son's favorite book. The book has taken quite a beating (my son likes to chew his books and bend the covers backwards) but once it bites the dust I plan to purchase another.

My biracial son had been wondering why he didn’t look like his father. His dad is his hero and this book was perfect for helping explain that people are different colors and everyone is special. He loves pointing to the children that look like him as well as his dad and I. It’s perfect for introducing different races especially if you have a biracial child.

Had a repeat page but what does it matter when the kid is having you re-read the book? It'll be fun to see at what age he notices.Also great that it includes families that have members that look different. We're a multiracial family.

Good book for everyone

this book has very awkward and inappropriate wording. it labels the kids by their “shade” using words like coffee, almond and golden. there is way to much emphasis on “shades” i used a sharpie to black out the “shades” and wrote different story. the images are great though. the last page says “all shades of kids play together” i changed it to “all kids play together”. i was going to maybe return but i really liked the pictures so decided to just change the words

Whilst a great book, I would not describe this as a board book. Every page is thinner and my little one was easily able to bend it shortly after using it, which defeats the reason of buying the board book version and has obviously damaged it.