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Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists

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A lively engaging book that captures the essence of the multicultural ideal. Readers are introduced to contemporary artists with many diverse cultural backgrounds through short autobiographical sketches, photographs, and self portraits. An explanation of the self portrait is also included in the sketch. This is a great way for kids (or adults for that matter) to learn about art and multiculturism at the same time!

Love this book. I use it for a jumping off point for my class, to write about themselves in an interesting and imaginative way. The illustrations are colorful and unique to each artist/author's contribution in the book.

I use this book and Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Paintings by Fourteen Artists by the same publisher, as a first-week activity in my 5th/ 6th classroom. We create self-portraits of ourselves and/ or family, and this book really helps because some of the paintings are abstract and aren't necessarily "traditional" face portraits. My kids love hearing the stories and I read them while they work on their own.
I've had many kids remind me throughout the year of stories they remember about the artists, and many are inspirational because the artists came from a variety of backgrounds.