Desiree Acevedo

El color de tu piel (The Color of Your Skin) Desiree Acevedo

Winner at the 2021 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children. Like a multicolor pencil palette, what defines human beings is their uniqueness and their diversity.

Vega and her colored pencils were inseparable. Together they created the most impressive drawings that were later exposed in the best museum in the world: the refrigerator at home. Vega used all the colors you can imagine for her drawings: red, yellow, blue, gold... At school, Vega was immersed in one of her new creations when her friend Alex stopped by, and peered into the box of pencils Vega had on her table. "Can you lend me the skin-colored pencil, please?" he asked. Skin-colored? Vega and Alex wondered why there is such a color in the box. With curiosity and creativity they will explore the diversity of skin tones of people who are part of their daily lives and they will discover that the "skin-color" can have a thousand shades and not just one.

Premiado en los Moonbeam Children's Book Awards de 2021. Como una paleta de lapiz multicolor, lo que define a los seres humanos es su singularidad y su diversidad. Una historia entretenida y creativa que aborda y celebra la diversidad entre los ninos pequenos.

Vega y sus lapices de colores eran inseparables. Juntos creaban los dibujos mas impresionantes que luego colgaban en el mejor museo del mundo: la nevera de casa. Sus pinturas contenian todos los colores que os podais imaginar: rojo, amarillo, azul, dorado... En el colegio, Vega estaba sumergida en una de sus nuevas creaciones cuando su amigo Alex se acerco a ella y, mirando la caja de colores que tenia Vega, le pregunto:

-?Me dejas el color carne?

?El color carne? Vega y Alex se preguntaron por que en la caja de lapices de colores hay uno que se llama asi. Con curiosidad y creatividad exploraran la diversidad de tonos de piel de personas que forman parte de su dia a dia y descubriran que el "color carne" puede tener mil tonalidades y no solo una.

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