Just Ask! : Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and award-winning artist Rafael Lopez create a kind and caring book about the differences that make each of us unique.
Feeling different, especially as a kid, can be tough. But in the same way that different types of plants and flowers make a garden more beautiful and enjoyable, different types of people make our world more vibrant and wonderful.
In Just Ask, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor celebrates the different abilities kids (and people of all ages) have. Using her own experience as a child who was diagnosed with diabetes, Justice Sotomayor writes about children with all sorts of challenges--and looks at the special powers those kids have as well. As the kids work together to build a community garden, asking questions of each other along the way, this book encourages readers to do the same: When we come across someone who is different from us but we're not sure why, all we have to do is Just Ask.
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Oh Sonia thank you for writing something that encourages curiosity and can help kids see themselves (or their family & friends) and assert themselves.
All kids belong in the garden of the classroom.
I don't love that she used Autism Speaks, but I don't see any harm in this book. I also see in her acknowledgments that her brother is a doctor so I looked him up to find out that he specializes in asthma and allergies.
Topics she covers: diabetes, asthma, nut allergy, autism, Down syndrome, ADHD, Tourette's, a kid who uses a wheelchair, blindness (a kid who has a guide dog and another who uses a cane), deafness, dyslexia, stutter
I like how she connected the topics by asking questions.
