Where Are You: A Child's Book About Loss

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Where are you from? This is a question many of our multicultural children are asked everyday. This is a question that sometimes makes one feel as if you don't belong here or there. In the book, a little girl is constantly asked this question. When she presents it to her abuelo, he enlightens her with a plethora of scenarios and situations that encompass where she is from. Most importantly, the girl learns that she is from the heart of those before her, and that the answer to this question is not a one word response, yet a colorful celebration of life. The books themselves have themes and adventures centred around friendship and kindness. And they help your child learn important social skills whilst stimulating their imaginations. This giveaway is limited to UK entrants aged 18 or over. If you enter from out of the UK, your entry will be deleted. As I read Where are you From by Yamile Saied Mendez, it exceeded my expectations and has become a WOW book and one of my favorite books in the contemporary realistic fiction genre. It allows readers to feel the raw emotions of what a person has to go through after being questioned about where they are from just because they look different and how they begin to question their identity. Disclaimer: I received thisWonderbly “Where Are You?” Book forthe purposes of this review. But all thoughts and opinions are my own.

You’re from hurricanes and dark storms, and a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep.... You may not be a stranger to Wonderbly. They produce a large range of personalised books for children of all ages. All of their books make your child the star of the story. Which is a great way to inspire self belief, and promote a love of reading.A short story perfect for reading aloud to a class or sharing with a family member. At first, I thought this book could benefit from more text and a longer story. But the brevity of Abuelo's answer makes the story accessible to a wider aged audience and allows the audience to indulge in the rich text used to describe the girl's genealogy. What elevates her work is ... her uncanny ability to entrance us by capturing the emotional risks, power plays, miscommunications, ups and downs, hard work, and mixed feelings that accompany so much of our undertakings. When classmates and acquaintances persistently ask her where she is from, refusing to accept her answer that she is from here, a young girl turns to her Abuelo (grandfather) for answers in this lovely new picture-book from author Yamile Saied Méndez and illustrator Jaime Kim. His poetic answers allude to the young girl's Argentine and (possible) Puerto Rican heritage, but when she persists in her question, he replies that she is from his heart, and from the heart of all her ancestors... SANDS were able to support us in travelling through this unbearable minefield of grief and specifically George’s childhood loss of a sibling, together, as a family. When a girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—none of her answers seems to be the right one.

Her unembellished prose is rich in conversations that are at once plaintive and wry, soul-baring and deflective. In addition, there are Rooney's now-famous sex scenes, among the most lushly moving you'll find in contemporary literary fiction. Interwoven with their story is that of Eileen Lydon, a hyper-intellectual, ridiculously low-paid editorial assistant at a Dublin literary journal where she spends her days inserting missing periods between W. H. Auden's initials. Smarting from a painful breakup, she seeks solace in the company of her oldest friend, Simon Costigan, a parliamentary assistant who, over the years, has casually dated a series of much younger women. Simon has been a light in her often-unhappy life since early childhood — and she's loath to risk losing his devoted friendship for a serious relationship that might go wrong. Although the book begins as a gentle riposte to narrow cultural and ethnic categorizations, its conclusion reaches out to all readers, evoking both heritage and the human family." — Publishers Weekly

This charmingly illustrated, thoughtfully written picture book offers a gentle wayfor the youngest readers to explore the complexities of identity. The story in Where Are You From? expands the idea of "origins" beyond a physical location to include the people, the natural world, and the history of a place and culture we are from. Most kids will relate to feeling left out, as well as finding comfort with a loving relative. The story encourages self-awareness, empathy, and family relationships. This resonant and award-winning picture book tells the story of one girl who constantly gets asked a simple question that doesn’t have a simple answer. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom—a book to share, in the spirit of I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo. This book was recommended to me by my aunt, who like the author, is from Argentina. She said that it would be a nice book to read my daughter who is growing up multicultural and will most likely have to attempt to answer this question of "where she is from" at one time or another. Since I'm Argentine and her mother is Mexican, my daughter, like many children around the world, need to understand that there are many layers to our identity and that the cultures and spirits of our ancestors live in us through our DNA but also from the experiences that came before. I chose the ‘Where Are You?’ book as I Ioved the central concept of a child discovering that they can be whoever they want to be when they get older. And it is easy to personalise a book to your own child. Elizabeth was delighted when she saw her name on the cover of. And she recognised herself in the avatar straight away.