Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor

 

Title: Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You  

Genre: Realistic Fiction, Nonfiction 

Author: Sonia Sotomayor 

Illustrator: Rafael Lopez 

Major Awards: No major awards 

Age group: 4 to 8 years 

 

Summary: 

This story written by United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is about a group of friends who are planting a garden together. As they’re planting this garden the kids ask each other questions about themselves and they realize that even though they are all different, together they make the community more fun and beautiful. This book celebrates that every person in the world is different but that each of us have a special power within us. 

Evaluation: 

Appropriate grade level would be Preschool to 3^rd grade. 

I loved all the bright colors in this book, it immediately made me happy after reading it. I loved how the book talked and drew different kids with different characteristics and disabilities because any kid who picks up this book, will definitely find themselves in it. I would definitely use this book in my classroom, as a read aloud during a special awareness month and also have it in my classroom library. It is very important to have books like these for students because they build up empathy for kids that might be having these problems.