Why Am I Different?

by Norma Simon, Dora Leder (Illustrator)

Overview

Portrays everyday situations in which children see themselves as "different" in family life, preferences, and aptitudes, and yet, feel that being different is all right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807590768
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Albert Whitman Concept Books Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Norma Simon wrote more than fifty books for children, including All Kinds of Families, All Kinds of Children, All Families are Special, and I Was So Mad!.

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Why Am I Different?

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By Norma Simon

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 1976 Norma Simon
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8075-9076-8

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CHAPTER 1

I'm different! I'm getting a big front tooth. What's different about you?

We're all different sizes at school. Look how big Greg is. Look how small Libby is. And I'm right in-between.

But at home, I'm the biggest kid.

My mother and my brothers all have blond hair. My father and my sister have brown hair. Why am I different? My hair is red.

I can't eat chocolate or shrimp or clams.

If I ate them, I'd feel sick.

I wonder if they taste as good as people say.

I don't like being different about eating.

People can do different things.

You draw better pictures than I do.

I can write better than you.

That's how I'm different.

Charlie's fastest with puzzles.

Cindy can whistle. And remember how good Kearsten is at cutting out snowflakes?

Everyone wanted to dress up like a ghost for the Halloween parade.

I like to be different.

My father helped me—I was a robot.

I was different, all right.

(Continues...)

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Editorial Reviews

"A series of children speak about the ways in which they or their families are different, or about the individual aptitudes of other children in their class…The text is useful for suggesting the many kinds of differences that exist."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"A book in the publisher's Concept series, this is intended to help the very young develop a realistic self-image. The text and lively pictures are lighthearted explorations of a sober theme: differences in children which can make them feel inferior…it's a terrific plug for individualism."—Publishers Weekly

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