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24 pp.
| Cavendish
| September, 2011
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TradeISBN 978-0-7614-5897-5$12.99
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Illustrated by
Viviana Garofoli.
An offstage narrator asks a child questions about skin color: "What if your best friend were blue?" "What if a policewoman were green?" The child's answers ("Even if my best friend were blue, he'd still play soccer with me") sound canned; the text amounts to what well-meaning adults want children to hear. Hospitable acrylics provide a more kid-friendly vehicle for the message.