The Same But Different Too

"Again, this is a story, and it’s got that rhyming language. It’s a story about diversity and being different. You need to introduce this to children from a young age, because the world that very small children interact with may not be very diverse. This book is simple to read with younger children and it’s got that nice rhyming text but also lots of detail in the pictures. There are people that are tall and people that are short; actually the tall character is not a person, it’s a giraffe who is taking books off the top shelf for the little girl who is small. So it’s a book that will grow with a child. If you can choose books that grow with children, that’s fantastic. It’s better value for money to start with, you don’t really want to buy a book that they are not interested in a month later. With this book, as the child gets older you can start talking about more and more details and the differences between people. You can bring in different aspects of society when it’s appropriate to do so for the age of the child. Yes, and when you have books that a child has grown up with, books that are familiar to them, they’ll often pick those at bedtime. If they’ve had a grumpy day, which they all have from time to time, and they just want to sit and cuddle, sometimes they want that familiar book. So it’s a comfort read, but also you can extend the reading to match their age and what they can take in from the story. I love it, it’s a fantastic book for little children."