Description
Description
Many of the faces children encounter in the media are filtered and edited. Beauty filter apps and heavily curated social media feeds are an everyday part of the landscape, and the pressure to fit in with unrealistic beauty standards is stronger than ever before. But in the real world, facial features come in all sizes, shapes, and forms. And each one has a job to do! Our facial features are responsible for the five senses and for making expressions that reflect our emotions. With art portraying a wide variety of facial features, author Miriam Moore-Keish celebrates all the important functions our faces can serve--supporting children as they form a stable self-image that honors the many amazing things their wonderful faces do each and every day.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
This exuberant picture book walks readers through the parts of their faces--from mouths, to noses, to eyes, to ears--and through all of the things their faces can do. Mouths taste and sing, eyes see and cry, and cheeks, chins, and foreheads feel. The text also describes how the parts of our faces can be decorated and protected. Vibrant cartoon-style illustrations feature as many shades of skin color, hair styles, eye shapes, nose swoops, and mouth sizes as there are pages in the book; the families in the background are similarly diverse. Larger-than-life spreads offer both close-ups and zoomed-out pictures that capture emotions, occasionally to comic effect. The end of the book asks readers to make connections to their own wonderful faces. A strong addition to programs that focus on the five senses, parts of the body, and on celebrating people's similarities and differences, this book also creates useful social-emotional learning moments through connections to feelings, the expression of those feelings, and family. VERDICT A colorful book that celebrates potentially infinite diversity, this will be a story time hit for preschool and kindergarten audiences.--Kat Mowczko "School Library Journal"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Capstone Editions
Pub date:
2025-08-01
Length:
32 pages

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