How Our Skin Sparkles: A Growth Mindset Children's Book for Global Citizens About Acceptance (Sparkling Me Series)

Parenthood is bliss but some challenges often go untold or unsolved. As a parent, the biggest task on hand is to rightly nurture your child’s mind and handle the innocent questions with encased complex subjects. Children are brilliant at observing and questioning without much thought. If answered casually and not with the utmost care, the petty doubts of today can lead to inappropriate mindsets of tomorrow. The answers to these simple questions are akin to setting up pillars towards raising strong, confident, and inclusive individuals.A children’s book is desirable if a blend of a well-thought subject, a good but simplified storyline, fun illustrations for easier understanding of the young minds, vibrant expression of the book, and most importantly ability to multi-task by talking about new ideas. This book has all of that and much more. I was extremely pleased to read the children’s book “ How our Skin sparkles” by Aditi Wardhan Singh.With lyrical flow in her narrative, she has worked her magic in explaining the significance of skin and the basis behind different colors. Comparing the beauty of different skin colors with the colors of a rainbow and the flowers in a garden are some smart techniques she has used to educate a child about the beauty of being unique.I find mentioning the pigmentation similar to a colorful ball pit, a very unique idea. In her book, she talks about shakkarpare ( Indian sweet treat ), Krishna ( Indian God) for blue color in his skin, the scientific reasons behind the skin color, and even the ancestral traits through our skin tones. It is a window for parents to introduce a few more concepts from Indian culture as they read or explain the content of this book to their children.The author by the means of her book diligently works on decluttering the bigger issues that our children face while dealing with society and its norms. Issues like discrimination or bullying due to color and race can be effectively handled from early on if our children are told on time that color is a part of our physical qualities but does not define us entirely as an individual. Color can never be the reason for anyone to feel short of capabilities required to rise and shine in life.I highly recommend this book to read by all parents and children to understand the simple yet crucial facts behind different skin tones and to help them accept that everyone is unique. The author concludes the book with a beautiful moral by mentioning how our inner beauty can accentuate our presence. Kindness, knowledge, and gratitude are the characteristics that help one shine and not the color.After reading this book, my daughter said heartening lines and that tells me this book served its purpose for us.She said “ Maa, with our different skin tones we collectively are like a palette that makes any gorgeous painting. So we make this world look beautiful for we all are colorful!

My son liked this book. A great book to show that it doesnt matter what skin color you have it matters what inside that counts.

This morning while reading How my skin sparkles, by Aditi Wardhan Singh, I found myself humming an old Hindi song, Yashomati maiya se bole nandlala. The song is about little Krishna asking his mom about why his skin is dark and why his friend has a fairer skin. That is an age old question that children for generations together have either thought about it or asked someone about it.Little Aarav comes home, roaring like a dinosaur, after a long day at school. He loves to eat some yummy snacks that his mother prepares for him and enjoys playing with legos and his little sister Sharvi. But what he enjoys the most is talking about his day with his mother. He asks her the same question," Why is my skin color darker than my friends? Why has God made us all so different?"Aditi Wardhan Singh has tackled this question in a very sensitive manner. She explains the science of melanin and how some people have more and some have less of it, which results in different shades of color. She talks about every person's individuality. She stresses the importance of how our skin color informs people of our background and culture. She even mentions the story of little Krishna and how his mother tackled his innocent questions. But, what I liked the most about the story is that it places the most emphasis on the acts of kindness that helps human beings function sensitively.The illustrations were another attractive feature about the book. The pictures show people and little children of all different colors. I especially loved one section that showed different people engaged in various acts of helping out one another. For example, there is a little girl stopping a bully, and a little boy trying to cheer up his friend. It is the little acts of kindness that makes us all human and that has been wonderfully portrayed by the illustrations and the words.Overall, I was pretty impressed with the book. The book ends with some very good conversation starters such as what things do people have in common, how can we show acts of kindness to people in our lives, etc. This book would make a wonderful addition to any household with curious little children. I will be very happy to give this book a whole five stars.

Aarav is pretending to be a dinosaur.He shares his sweets with Sharvi (sister).Aarav asked Yashoda (mom) why his skin color is not the same as hers?Kids in his class skin color are different also.She explained about Krishna (Indian God).What else did she tell Aarav about his skin color?I do not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing free books from publishers & authors. Therefore, I am under no obligation to write a positive review, only an honest one.An awesome book cover, great hand-drawn colored pictures, charming illustrations & proper font & writing style. A very professionally written children’s (preschool/elementary age) learning storybook. It was quite easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters, settings, etc. to keep track of. This could also make another great children’s educational presentation (human skin color), movie, an animated cartoon, or better yet a mini-TV series. There is no doubt in my mind this is an extremely easy rating of 5 stars.Thank you for the free author; Raising World Children LLC.; FreeBooksy; Amazon Digital Services LLC.; bookTony Parsons MSW (Washburn)

I read this with my children this evening. They enjoyed the story of how the little boy in the story questioned his skin colour and how it is a different tone from his mother and sister. The mother explains about how melatonin in the skin makes all different tones and that the world is a more interesting place because there are all different kinds of colours of skin. She compares it to bright balls in a ball pit or the colours of the rainbow- how beautiful to have a variety of colours. My children enjoyed hearing the story and it opened up a conversation with them - it helped them to understand why their cousin has different skin tones to them. This story enables young children who have different skin to their friends, to not only accept it and understand why but also to embrace it and be proud.

This was an enjoyable and interesting book to read to my grandchildren who liked it, but it did not flow as well as it might have done, mainly because of the font.

Cute concept and illustrations with some informative points. Would have liked the rhyme element to be a little more fluid (just personal preference).

This was a treasure to read! I really enjoyed reading this inspiring story in my podcast!Storytime with Angel Bonnet and Friends❤👩🏾‍🦱🐰📚

A nice story but the font is a little uncomfortable to read.