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What Are You?

By Christian Trimmer & Mike Curato
What Are You? by Christian Trimmer & Mike Curato digital book - Fable

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From Christian Trimmer and award-winning illustrator Mike Curato comes What Are You?, a brilliant, new early-reader picture book brimming with warmth and playfulness that explores questions of race and identity.

When a puggle meets two new poodle friends, there is a question the poodles feel they must ask.

What are you?
What am I?
Yes, what are you?
I am a dog.
No, what are you?

So begins a conversation about family and identity, and about the things we're good at... and why we're good at them.

Brimming with warmth and playfulness, What Are You? is an exemplary picture book for early readers. Equally funny and thoughtful, the book includes prompts to facilitate important first conversations about stereotypes and bias between child and adult.

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3.5
“A puggle comes to play with some poodles but the poodles make some assumptions about the puggle that make it uncomfortable. I like this book for several reasons. I like that it addresses negative assumptions about race/ancestry/culture in an age appropriate way without guilt or blame. Like little kids, the poodles are not trying to be mean, just making the wrong assumptions about someone new they have met and the book offers a way to deal with both sides of the issue. By focusing on the puggle and poodles being good at something because they like doing it and practice a lot, it also encourages kids to practice at what they love to get better, not to rely or assume they need to be born a certain way to succeed.”

About Christian Trimmer

Christian Trimmer is a children's book writer and editor. He is the author of Simon's New Bed, Teddy's Favorite Toy, Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies, and Wombat, the Reluctant Hero. He lives with his husband in Hillsdale, New York.

Mike Curato is the award-winning author and illustrator of the Little Elliot series and Where is Bina Bear?, and has also illustrated a number of other books for children. Mike lives in Northampton, MA with his Jack Russell beagle mix pup, Leia.

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