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Literature Links for Primary
The Upside Down Boy / El Nino de Cabeza
- The Upside Down Boy / El Nino de Cabeza*
written by Juan Felipe Herrera
- Great illustrations highlight this books’ lyrical tale about a boy’s adjustment to moving to an unfamiliar community. His world seems upside down and strange until he finds his talents and adapts to his new surroundings.
Activity Idea
Discuss diversity with the class. Read the book and record students’ observations about additional similarities and differences they observe. Continue this discussion in small groups. Each group will make a flip book on a specific difference. Use this website to decide the format and title. Students should each write one sentence about a difference. After the book is printed, students will illustrate their sentences, assemble the book, and share with one another.
Adapted from Price, K. (31 January 2008). “It’s OK to Be Different”. 12 March 2008.
Additional books to read and web site to visit:
- Whoever You Are by Mem Fox (Voyager Books, 2006)
- It's Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004)
- The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1993)
- Breaking Down the Walls
* published by Children's Book Press, 2006
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