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The Skin on My Chin
Children’s picture book enables conversations about diversity, stereotypes and prejudice
The Skin on My Chin is a fun rhyming picture book, for children ages 2 to 8, written as a tool for parents and teachers to answer questions and guide continued conversations about skin color, melanin, ancestry, diversity, race, stereotypes and prejudice.
“Engaging in conversations with young children about diversity is an important part of children understanding the world around them,” author Michelle Chalmers advises.
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The author aims to foster an awareness of the importance of teaching children the benefits of diversity and of being a global citizen. Guiding children through understanding similarities and differences of people can be rewarding and can enable children to live richer lives.
This is the first children's book for Michelle Chalmers, who lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.
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You can find Chalmers’ first children’s picture book, The Skin on My Chin at Wellesley Books, New England Mobile Book Fair, Amazon.com and www.createspace.com/4150904