Culture Diversity: All The Colors We Are, Book

Description

Help young children sort through the often confusing information and myths they receive about human skin color. With All The Colors We Are: The Story Of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger, children learn about melanin, the coloring chemical in our skin. The key concepts about the function of melanin, as a protector of our skin from damage by the sun, the correlation between environment and skin color, and the hereditary aspects of skin color are all beautifully explained in All The Colors We Are. Parents and teachers can use this simple explanation as an entree to an often awkward discussion.