Let's Talk About Race

Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3

“I’ll take off my skin. Will you take off yours?” A free-verse story by Newbery Honor author Julius Lester.

Beneath our skinI look like you and you look like meand she looks like her and himand he loos like him and herand we look like them and they look like us.Award winners Julius Lester and Karen Barbour deliver an original and boldly painted provocative exploration of the commonalities we share and the details that make each of us unique.New York Public Library’s “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing"

About the Author

Julius Lester (1939-2018) is a Newbery Honor winner, a National Book Award Finalist and a Coretta Scott King Award winner. His most recent book, Guardian, is for young adults.  Visit him online at www.juliuslester.com.Karen Barbour has illustrated many books for children, including YOU WERE LOVED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN; FIRE! FIRE! HURRY! HURRY!; I HAVE AN OLIVE TREE; and MARVELOUS MATH: A BOOK OF POEMS, which was a Parent’s Choice Gold Award winner. She wrote and illustrated LITTLE NINO’S PIZZERIA, a Reading Rainbow selection. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Rome. She lives in Point Reyes Station, California.

Karen Barbour has illustrated many books for children, including YOU WERE LOVED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN; FIRE! FIRE! HURRY! HURRY!; I HAVE AN OLIVE TREE; and MARVELOUS MATH: A BOOK OF POEMS, which was a Parent’s Choice Gold Award winner. She wrote and illustrated LITTLE NINO’S PIZZERIA, a Reading Rainbow selection. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Rome. She lives in Point Reyes Station, California.