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Skin Again

32 pp. | Hyperion/Jump | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0825-X $16.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Chris Raschka. The creators of Happy to Be Nappy collaborate here on a celebration of humanity rather than ethnicity. In a text that flows and dances and weaves, the phrase "The skin I'm in is just a covering" repeats several times. "If you want to know who I am you have got to come inside." Raschka uses a recurring motif of snakes and multilayered onions and hearts, echoing the call for peeling back layers to get inside.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2004

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