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 * You Are (Not) Small**

Title: You Are (Not) Small Author: Anna Kang Illustrator: Christopher Weyant Reading levels: Grades K-1 Age Range: 3-6 Paper back: 32 Pages Publisher: Amazon Childrens Pub, 2014 ISBN: 9781477847725 Language: English
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Two creatures can't agree on which one is big and which is small. That is until another creature arrives to solve it once and for all. The small purple creature meets a similarly shaped but much larger orange critter. The purple creature maintains that the orange creature is “big”; the orange one counters by calling the purple one “small.” This continues, pages full of each type of creature hollering across the gutter. Eventually, these brightly colored animals learn to see things in a different way. In the end, they decide they are all hungry and trudge off to eat together.

Husband-and-wife team Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant live in New Jersey with their two daughters. You Are (Not) Small is their first children's book. They are working on a sequel. Anna, a native New Yorker, grew up believing she was small until one day she realized that everyone else was big. She received an M.F.A. from University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where the visual storyteller in her was awakened, forever changing the way she saw art, life, and everything in between. Besides writing, Anna loves to read, travel, laugh, eat, and nap.A cartoonist and illustrator, Christopher's cartoons can regularly be seen in The New Yorker magazine. His cartoons are syndicated worldwide and have been featured on The Today Show, Meet the Press, and World News with Diane Sawyer.
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I enjoyed this wonderful, engaging picture book. This book not only has a great lesson about perspective and debate, but it is also hilarious. The story shows the reader there are many ways of looking at something. Just because something is small to you doesn’t mean it is small. The story is completely in dialogue, but still gives a full feeling and contains simple, bright and beautiful illustrations. While the story itself seems simple, the concepts are pertinent to several important social issues such as bullying and racism, as well as understanding point of view.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Illustrations: This story has few words and clean, uncomplicated illustrations of the creatures against a white background which make it more understandable <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for new readers. Students can connect the illustrations and text to each other. The relatable creatures and the way they are placed in an environment with no distinguishing features will let students see themselves in the situation and the solution. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-The writing style: This story is written in all dialogue and can be used to show what dialogue looks like and how and why it is used. Also, this book strongly lends itself to helping teach the literary element of point of view and could be used to compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations and how to describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Moral of the story: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This story can be used to show how each person has differences and a different perspective. Children see how comparisons can lead to feelings about themselves that are based on illusion.
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