Best Best Colors: Los mejores colores (Anti-Bias Books for Kids) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Eric Hoffman (Author), Celeste Henriquez (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2002 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Anti-Bias Books for Kids

With the help of his two mammas, Nate learns he can have more than one best color and one best friend. Includes activity and teaching ideas.

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish

About the Author

Eric Hoffman is the program coordinator for the Cabrillo College Children's Center in Aptos, CA. He has worked with preschool-age children since 1970 and cofounded the CRADLE project, which assists teachers and parents in conflict resolution with children.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Redleaf Press (July 1, 2002)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 1884834698
• ISBN-13: 978-1884834691
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Libros en español > Infantil y juvenil > Asuntos

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A refreshing look at families, December 18, 2001

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"cruzin21" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Best Colors: Los mejores colores (Anti-Bias Books for Kids) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I was very pleased to find a book that shares a realistic point of view about families. Not only is this a child of african american heritage, this child also has a same sex family. I was pleased to see that families like these are not just ignored. This is a great book for children being raised in same sex families. It is also a great book for children in conventional hetrosexual families to help them see that gay and lesbian families are very much the same as their own.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And why shouldn't they be proud?, December 20, 2001

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K. Foreman "a Jane of all trades" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Best Colors: Los mejores colores (Anti-Bias Books for Kids) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I thot this book was a wonderful way to show once more that love truly does make a family.
All the colors of the rainbow represent the diversity in the world around us. Why should we only be able to pick one, or maybe two colors... celebrate this diversity, don't teach our children to hate. We must teach them to accept all people for their many different attributes and in no way to shun them because they they may have two mommies, or two daddies, or just one mommy and no daddy, etc... children can be cruel to each other at such young ages. Parents do not need to fuel this behavior.
Please read your child this book and start them on the path to celebrating diversity. If this includes going to your annual pride parade, that's wonderful! The pride parade is becoming a great family event for our glbt community. It's turning into less and less of an event with topless grrl bikers and men in leather sm gear and becoming an exibit of the groups in the community that support each other and their families. It's truly a celebration of community acceptance and pride.

Hate is not a family value, please love your neighbors and read your children this beautiful book.

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Educational, December 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Best Colors: Los mejores colores (Anti-Bias Books for Kids) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

One of the other reviewers wrote "I want to make it clear to anyone considering buying this book what you are buying. This child has two mothers as parents and the book ends with them all going to a "pride parade"." - I actually said aloud after reading this review "And?!". This book is a fantastic educational tool for children - the perfect way to teach kids that not all families are the same and that's ok! I heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to bring up a well balanced child - who doesn't discriminate against other children - just because their family is different.