Looking Like Me

by Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers

Overview

When you look in a mirror, who do you see?



A boy? A girl?

A son? A daughter?

A runner? A dancer?



Whoever and whatever you see―just put out your fist and give yourself an "I am" BAM!



This jumping, jazzy, joyful picture book by the award-winning team of Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers celebrates every child, and everything that a child can be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606840016
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	517,070
Product dimensions:	10.28(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Walter Dean Myers has received accolades including the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, Michael L. Printz Award, National Book Award Finalist, and Newbery Honors. In 2019 he was posthumously awarded the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

Christopher Myers is an award-winning picture book writer and illustrator, but that's not all. He is also a fine artist, a filmmaker, a photographer, a video artist, a clothes designer, and a proud Brooklynite. Christopher has won many awards for his children's books, including a Caldecott Honor, four Coretta Scott King Honors, three Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors, a New York Times Best Illustrated citation, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor. A graduate of Brown University, Christopher was a member of the prestigious Whitney Museum Studio Program. His fine art has been shown in museums and galleries around the country, including PS1, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Philadelphia), and the Museum of Contemporary Arts (Chicago). His film on Kenya for the Sundance Institute and the Gates Foundation has been used to launch Sundance's Short Film Challenge.

Editorial Reviews

"The Myerses—father and son—reunite for a poetic celebration of self that blends a sort of Whitman-esque hip-hop with '70s-vibe visuals. Adapting the cumulative cadences of Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Walter Dean Myers's text immediately establishes a preeminent self-affirmation: 'I looked in the mirror / And what did I see? / A real handsome dude looking just like me.' Narrator Jeremy hears from a succession of family, neighbors and community members and adds role after role to his portfolio. He's a brother, son, writer, city kid, artist, dancer, talker, runner, dreamer: 'Looked in the mirror— / I look like a crowd.' Christopher Myers overlays eclectic photo collages with stylized, silhouetted figures in saturated hues of chartreuse, butternut, chocolate, magenta and more. The text's two upper-case typefaces look like gritty, spray-painted stencils and whimsical woodcuts. There's a touch of call-and-response in the refrain ('He put out his fist. / I gave it a BAM!') that begs to be read aloud. This vibrant synthesis of poetry and pictures is a natural for classrooms and family sharing." —starred, Kirkus Reviews

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