We're Different We're the Same [Library Binding]

Bobbi Jane Kates (Author), Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

Illustrated in full color. The colorful characters from Sesame Street teach

young children about racial harmony. Muppets, monsters, and humans compare

noses, hair, and skin and realize how different we all are. But as they look

further, they also discover how much we are alike.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets cavort cheerfully with people of all sizes, shapes and ethnicities in this rather humdrum effort to show the ways in which all people are the same, despite obvious physical differences. On alternate spreads, drawings imitating photos zero in on variations on noses, hair, mouths, skin, eyes and bodies, all "different" from one another. A turn of the page reveals all of the owners of these body parts interacting, alongside several lines of sing-song verse explaining how our noses, hair, etc., are "the same." Some of the rhymes are silly or forced; part of the explanation of skin reads: "Muscles and bones are wrapped inside it. / We all have blood and skin to hide it!" Even the affable Sesame Street gang can't enliven this mundane treatment of a significant subject. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Rebound By Sagebrush; Rebound edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078570552X
• ISBN-13: 978-0785705529
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,030,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Especially good for adopted children, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) (Paperback)

We really like this book for our 3-yr old chinese-born daughter. It not only teaches her racial harmony, but also shows her that her parents are more like her than different. We like to give this book as a gift to other children and it is appropriate for any child. The illustrations are cute and we have had many a giggle as we point each other out in the pictures ("Daddy's hair looks like Big Bird's!").

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sesame Street helps us learn about diversity., May 7, 2003

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P. Heaphy (West Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) (Paperback)

I have a dog-eared copy of this book that I have used for years in my preschool classroom. The format of the book is repetive - "We are all alike. We all have hair to keep us warm." Then on the next page, "We are all different, our hair looks different". The children are immediately attracted to the Sesame Street characters and the possibility of guessing each character by their distinguishing feature. Often the favorite page is the one about noses, each character's nose is shown as if in a page of photographs showing just the noses - ... to The Count to Snuffalupagus.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We're Different, We're the Same is great for classrooms, June 14, 2001

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This review is from: We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) (Paperback)

I teach kindergarten and use this book every year at the beginning of the year. It takes each part of a person and shows how they are both the same and different. Example "our hair is different" then they show a variety of hair types. On the next page it continues: "Our hair is the same. It grows on us in several places. It warms our heads and frames oour faces."