TY - BOOK AU - hooks,bell AU - Raschka,Christopher TI - Skin again AV - HM1271 .H66 2017 U1 - PIC HOO KW - Race KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Race relations KW - Human skin color KW - Picture books for children N1 - "First hardcover edition, October 2004"--Title page verso N2 - The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other the treasures stored down deep. Learning to cherish those treasures, to be all we imagine ourselves to be, makes us free ER -