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Book Title The Play Lady
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Author Eric Hoffman, Illustrator Suzanne Tornquist

A Redleaf Anti-Bias Book for Young Children It shows a variety of people.

Bilingual Spanish/English text

This title fits these categories:

Racial awareness: Shows diverse people living their lives in realistic ways.

Racial pride: Provides strong, positive role model for diverse children

Racial issue: Shows historical or contemporary inequality based on race.

Activism Shows ways we can make a difference.

Acceptable grade levels Preschool through upper elemenary

Concepts/ Topics covered in book:

The main character, the play lady, is Korean. The children are black, Hispanic, and white. One is in wheel chair. She lets the children play in her garden. One day her trailer is vandalized. The graffiti on the trailer is very strong and would need a discussion from teacher. The positive thing in this book is that the children take action. They get their parents to help fix up the mess. One of the few books that demonstrates what activism looks like.

Questions/ Activities

There is an excellent set of questions and activities at back of book.
The ally, victim, perpetrator, bystander activity would also work well with this.

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