Independent Reading Level: Grades 2-4
Award Winner in the Children's Picture Book: Softcover Fiction category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
2020 Gold recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award

In What If We Were All The Same ! author C.M.Harris introduces children to a simple concept : how diversity is a powerful and a wonderful thing. First, she shows thanks to Ashlynn Feather’s illustrations what a world where everything would be the same would look like. Same houses, same cars, same stars. Even the food would be the same and beets would be in everyday meals !

Using animals at first in her demonstration, she then shows how people are all different. I enjoyed all the diversity in this book and how it includes everyone : hair colors, skin colors, eye colors, handicaps, heights and capabilities ; everything being nicely explained in rhymes. I love how C.M.Harris empowers children, encouraging them to embrace their differences and respect the ones of others as well, sharing an important message about inclusion and diversity. ( )

This book is FANTASTIC for teaching students that what is different to them is special and should be celebrated. ( )

What if we were all the same celebrates the differences children can have from others by elaborating the idea "what if we were all the same" with animals, food and inanimate objects. The differences children can have is with hobbies, strength and physicals appearances. What if we were all the same is the recipient of the Mom's Choice Award, Best book Awards, Kids shelf books for the cover design award and a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards. ( )

Just looking at the illustrations on the cover I knew this was a positive book about inclusion and acceptance. What If We Were All The Same is a children's book that embraces the beautiful differences we all have in relation to height, hair type and abilities. Also the story talks about how boring the world would be if we were all the same. Our differences are what makes us unique and if we truly think about it, would you want to be the exact same as someone else? ( )