I’m grateful to you for talking about current world issues and events, and for taking the time to teach your children how to be loving, considerate people. Love this layout!!
I really enjoy all your videos but this one was by far the best. It is a very beautiful page in your journal, and I love your work. However, your beautiful heart shows in this video and I am always looking for picture books to share with my daughter, and have already purchased some you mentioned and am excited to see what other books you have to share!
Thanks so much for sharing diverse kids books! I dont have kids but fully believe that educating children is so so important! So many people say children are too young to understand certain topics but that’s absolutely not true at all. beautiful art spread too!
Fabulous spread and what great inspiration about the diverse children’s books. We tend to stick with what we know, what we grew up with, but there are so many other great books out there to show our kids.
When you flipped past the title page, it hit me who Oliver Jeffers is!!!! I could see his style plain as day -- he wrote The Day The Crayons Quit!!!!!! One of my favorites.
oliver jeffers is my favorite! favorite! favorite! and also, Adam Rubin's children books (Dragon's Love Tacos, especially! ha!) and what a BEAUTIFUL page you made!! one of my favorites EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!
Teacher here as well and love picture books! I have a whole book shelf even before my kids and just keep adding to it. Another one that’s great is This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe. It shows the lives of seven kids around the world.
I am another picture book lover and hadn’t heard of a few you mentioned, so thank you! Double enjoyment! Lovely art and lovely books make for so many likes!
I adore this page and I love how you are teaching Archie everything about this world from such a young age. I have never heard of this book but I have ordered one for Effan and one for my class now thst I will read to them in September.xx
What a brilliant video. I LOVE the way the page turned out, just gorgeous in every way and I will definitely look up those books you mentioned. They seem perfect to introduce understanding of other people to little ones. I will be buying a couple for my grandchildren. When you wrote that quote I actually got a little teary, I wish everyone lived by those 3 words. I just blooming love you Adele xx
I’m so glad I watched this video, I love children’s books even though my children are 10 and 16 now. I live in Canada, we have a lot of multicultural people and it’s a large country as well. Just started art journaling, thank you for the inspiration.
I love this page, and I love the idea of using children's books for inspiration. I really appreciate you sharing your lists of favorites for us to utilize. I am really interested in those stickers you used on your page. What company, and what collection/line was that sticker pack from?? What a wonderful selection of diverse people in that pack!! Thank you, as always for sharing your beautiful work and thoughts with us Adele. Hope you and that rad family of yours stay safe and well. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
One thing that had a huge impression on me as a young child was an African American woman who came into our second grade class to explain why some people had darker skin than others. She used the equator and explained how intense the sun is in areas close to it; therefore, people who lived close to the equator and/or their ancestors needed more melatonin in their skin to protect them from the sun light. I seriously hadn’t given it much thought one way or another up until that point, but I was and am a very empathetic, compassionate, inclusive person anyway. I carried that Information all through my life, and despite growing up in a home where racism was normal I never became a racist and I can trace at least part of that back to that speaker in second grade. I knew it was vitally important because the news was even there in our class room taping it for the evening news broadcast that evening. I think it’s such an important thing to teach your children from an early age about other people unlike themselves whether It’s race or some other difference, as well as teaching them about their own white privileged. Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy Macintosh is an excellent read in regards to white privileged lifestyles. There’s also a book with her name that’s a series of essays on this subject about personal experiences. Hope all goes well teaching Archie.
Delightful. I really enjoyed your creativity - lots of good stuff with out photo scrap booking :) My PhD is in Child Development - these are lovely books for children. Thanks so much for sharing. You and Arch will have fun
I love this page, the book, you, and especially how you handled this subject and incorporated it into your content. Thank you so much for being a light in the world. I want to pick up all these books now and I don't even have kids 😂❤❤❤
I completely agree... I couldn't quite work out how to word a comment, but you have said exactly what I was thinking. It's so important to teach diversity and by starting to share these books from such a young age is fab! (I don't have kids either) ❤️ xxx
Thanks for this great book share and of course this beautiful page! I love the book "the little I am me". Its originally a german book, but I found there is an english version on amazon :)
Today came to an end too quickly, I loved the layout and seeing the books you've found. Your layout will be a favourite for the story about why you've created it and the techniques were lovely.
I lovs love love how you came to talk about this subject in a respectful way that is actually helpful for parents to introduce into our own homes, we wont need to have hard conversations with our children in the future if its their normal. I bet you were a great teacher, will you ever go back to it?
I absolutely loved how the page came out! Also thanks for talking about all the different books, I have a 4 yr old son and I’m going to try and find some of those books here in Canada to read with him. 😃
I have to be upfront, I have Aspergers so I don't know how I would have been if I had been neurotypical, but I think I would be the same. I have never gotten stuck on something like skin colour or missing limbs or religion or something like that. I live and grew up in Sweden, to a local mother and a Danish father and his Swedish was really good for a while thanks to us, his children, since we tended to correct him, as small children tends to do. My mom's best friend was a Danish woman who spoke more Danish than Swedish up until her death, we played with a Danish family where the dad can't speak Swedish still, although I just think he's stubborn A neighbour we hung out often with had a dad from Chile, one of my best friends while growing up has a black dad and she looked mostly white except her hair, which was enough to make people bully her (until I threatened them with their own theory. They kept asking if she had gotten an electric shock from an outlet, so I just wanted to help their research, on them of course, no violence at all :P ), as a teenager I hung out with all kinds of people, including a girl from the middle east who knew that as soon as she finished the mandatory school at 15-16, she would be sent down to get married and had accepted that, which made her family give her some freedom other girls in her situation didn't have, as long as she didn't have sex. Did I like it? Not at all, but she was ok with it. She felt like she didn't have the brain to continue studying, so she felt it was a bit of a safety, to get a husband to provide for her, while she took care of the family. Today, 20 years later, I kind of envy her. Something that happened more recently was I talked to a man for an hour or so and it wasn't until he walked away that I noticed he had a fake leg. My mom is the same, we were getting a furniture from someone and her husband was outside cutting the lawn when we came and we talked a bit. I knew before we went that he had a wheelchair, I just didn't know why. Turned out he was missing a leg from the hip. I didn't focus on it though, I just saw it and then ignored it. But since I know my mom, I asked her later if she had seen it and she had completely missed it. She was talking to his face, not his legs was her response. It's kind of hard to see differences when I've been surrounded by different kinds of people and notice the similarities more than I notice the differences. If I dislike someone then it's because of their behaviour, not their skin colour :P
Your layout is beautiful! I love the content of your vlog. I discovered a book a few months ago and it's available on Amazon...I Am Enough by Grace Byers.
I’m grateful to you for talking about current world issues and events, and for taking the time to teach your children how to be loving, considerate people. Love this layout!!
I really enjoy all your videos but this one was by far the best. It is a very beautiful page in your journal, and I love your work. However, your beautiful heart shows in this video and I am always looking for picture books to share with my daughter, and have already purchased some you mentioned and am excited to see what other books you have to share!
This might just be my favourite art journal page ever. Love it!
love this book so much! Love all of Oliver Jeffers books. They're so beautiful!
I'm binging your videos today! SO INSPIRATIONAL!
thank you!
This is one of my absolute favourite videos you've done Adele. Beautiful.
Thanks so much for sharing diverse kids books! I dont have kids but fully believe that educating children is so so important! So many people say children are too young to understand certain topics but that’s absolutely not true at all. beautiful art spread too!
Fabulous spread and what great inspiration about the diverse children’s books. We tend to stick with what we know, what we grew up with, but there are so many other great books out there to show our kids.
When you flipped past the title page, it hit me who Oliver Jeffers is!!!! I could see his style plain as day -- he wrote The Day The Crayons Quit!!!!!! One of my favorites.
One of my FAVORITES of your videos!
oliver jeffers is my favorite! favorite! favorite! and also, Adam Rubin's children books (Dragon's Love Tacos, especially! ha!)
and what a BEAUTIFUL page you made!! one of my favorites EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!
Love this LO and loved hearing about the books you've found to help educate Arch and Vi. You're such great parents
I love how this page turned out! And love the book tips 😄
Loved this video not just for the totally gorgeous page but for the books and philosophy behind your choices. Xx
Teacher here as well and love picture books! I have a whole book shelf even before my kids and just keep adding to it. Another one that’s great is This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe. It shows the lives of seven kids around the world.
I am another picture book lover and hadn’t heard of a few you mentioned, so thank you! Double enjoyment! Lovely art and lovely books make for so many likes!
I love how you talked about this topic and used your art as a form of social justice ❤️❤️
I adore this page and I love how you are teaching Archie everything about this world from such a young age. I have never heard of this book but I have ordered one for Effan and one for my class now thst I will read to them in September.xx
Beautiful work and beautiful thoughts behind!
What a brilliant video. I LOVE the way the page turned out, just gorgeous in every way and I will definitely look up those books you mentioned. They seem perfect to introduce understanding of other people to little ones. I will be buying a couple for my grandchildren. When you wrote that quote I actually got a little teary, I wish everyone lived by those 3 words. I just blooming love you Adele xx
I’m so glad I watched this video, I love children’s books even though my children are 10 and 16 now. I live in Canada, we have a lot of multicultural people and it’s a large country as well. Just started art journaling, thank you for the inspiration.
Love your page and thanks for all the books recommendations
I love this page, and I love the idea of using children's books for inspiration. I really appreciate you sharing your lists of favorites for us to utilize. I am really interested in those stickers you used on your page. What company, and what collection/line was that sticker pack from?? What a wonderful selection of diverse people in that pack!! Thank you, as always for sharing your beautiful work and thoughts with us Adele. Hope you and that rad family of yours stay safe and well. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Wonderful video. Love the book selection and the page.
One thing that had a huge impression on me as a young child was an African American woman who came into our second grade class to explain why some people had darker skin than others. She used the equator and explained how intense the sun is in areas close to it; therefore, people who lived close to the equator and/or their ancestors needed more melatonin in their skin to protect them from the sun light. I seriously hadn’t given it much thought one way or another up until that point, but I was and am a very empathetic, compassionate, inclusive person anyway. I carried that Information all through my life, and despite growing up in a home where racism was normal I never became a racist and I can trace at least part of that back to that speaker in second grade. I knew it was vitally important because the news was even there in our class room taping it for the evening news broadcast that evening. I think it’s such an important thing to teach your children from an early age about other people unlike themselves whether It’s race or some other difference, as well as teaching them about their own white privileged. Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy Macintosh is an excellent read in regards to white privileged lifestyles. There’s also a book with her name that’s a series of essays on this subject about personal experiences. Hope all goes well teaching Archie.
For so long I’ve been meaning to look at your videos Adele, today was the day, wish I’d looked earlier!
Such wonderful content, I’m hooked!
This is beautiful. I need that book too x
Delightful. I really enjoyed your creativity - lots of good stuff with out photo scrap booking :) My PhD is in Child Development - these are lovely books for children. Thanks so much for sharing. You and Arch will have fun
I really enjoyed this video! Thanks so much.
Just beautiful!!
Mem Fox is popular in the USA, too. I'm a children's librarian, and I've used her books many times.
Love this page.
This is absolutely stunning! Love the colors, the layering & inclusive theme! TFS!
I loved everything about this video!
I love this page, the book, you, and especially how you handled this subject and incorporated it into your content. Thank you so much for being a light in the world. I want to pick up all these books now and I don't even have kids 😂❤❤❤
I completely agree... I couldn't quite work out how to word a comment, but you have said exactly what I was thinking. It's so important to teach diversity and by starting to share these books from such a young age is fab! (I don't have kids either) ❤️ xxx
LOVE!! -Kari
Thanks for this great book share and of course this beautiful page!
I love the book "the little I am me". Its originally a german book, but I found there is an english version on amazon :)
OMG love this page!
This page is gorgeous and I loved listening to you describe the various books
Love this!
Loved it one of my favourites of yours
This is so beautiful, but thought provoking :)
Today came to an end too quickly, I loved the layout and seeing the books you've found. Your layout will be a favourite for the story about why you've created it and the techniques were lovely.
Thank you so much for this! I have added these books to my niece’s amazon wishlist
Great page!
Loved everything about this. Love the books you spoke about and your stories. Fantastic ❤️ Beautiful spread!
Great page👍
I lovs love love how you came to talk about this subject in a respectful way that is actually helpful for parents to introduce into our own homes, we wont need to have hard conversations with our children in the future if its their normal. I bet you were a great teacher, will you ever go back to it?
Very awesome, beautiful page!! I think its a top fav! It has an especially awesome reason/ meaning!!
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What a wonderful book! As a former teacher, I'd never seen his books before. I just ordered this one on Amazon. I LOVE all the books you shared.
Fantastic
I absolutely loved how the page came out! Also thanks for talking about all the different books, I have a 4 yr old son and I’m going to try and find some of those books here in Canada to read with him. 😃
I don't have any kids and I want these books!
Unsure if this is a type of book that you are looking for but there is a book called Jeremy's Tail by Duncan Ball.
Loved your journal page, as well as the book recommendation (for my 7 year old daughter :) )
Love this page and those books sound fantastic! I don’t have kids but that won’t stop me trying to get some of them, thank you for sharing ✨✨
I have to be upfront, I have Aspergers so I don't know how I would have been if I had been neurotypical, but I think I would be the same. I have never gotten stuck on something like skin colour or missing limbs or religion or something like that.
I live and grew up in Sweden, to a local mother and a Danish father and his Swedish was really good for a while thanks to us, his children, since we tended to correct him, as small children tends to do. My mom's best friend was a Danish woman who spoke more Danish than Swedish up until her death, we played with a Danish family where the dad can't speak Swedish still, although I just think he's stubborn
A neighbour we hung out often with had a dad from Chile, one of my best friends while growing up has a black dad and she looked mostly white except her hair, which was enough to make people bully her (until I threatened them with their own theory. They kept asking if she had gotten an electric shock from an outlet, so I just wanted to help their research, on them of course, no violence at all :P ), as a teenager I hung out with all kinds of people, including a girl from the middle east who knew that as soon as she finished the mandatory school at 15-16, she would be sent down to get married and had accepted that, which made her family give her some freedom other girls in her situation didn't have, as long as she didn't have sex.
Did I like it? Not at all, but she was ok with it. She felt like she didn't have the brain to continue studying, so she felt it was a bit of a safety, to get a husband to provide for her, while she took care of the family. Today, 20 years later, I kind of envy her.
Something that happened more recently was I talked to a man for an hour or so and it wasn't until he walked away that I noticed he had a fake leg. My mom is the same, we were getting a furniture from someone and her husband was outside cutting the lawn when we came and we talked a bit. I knew before we went that he had a wheelchair, I just didn't know why. Turned out he was missing a leg from the hip. I didn't focus on it though, I just saw it and then ignored it. But since I know my mom, I asked her later if she had seen it and she had completely missed it. She was talking to his face, not his legs was her response.
It's kind of hard to see differences when I've been surrounded by different kinds of people and notice the similarities more than I notice the differences. If I dislike someone then it's because of their behaviour, not their skin colour :P
My favourite children's book is Peter H Reynold's "Ish". It's really good for adults too.
Loved everything about this. What was the white substance you used to stencil the stars? Acrylic paint, perhaps? Thank you🙂
Adele usually uses white gesso to stencil
Where did you get the galaxy stencil from?
Not a book, but I neve Forget a Face is an excellent memory game.
Your layout is beautiful! I love the content of your vlog. I discovered a book a few months ago and it's available on Amazon...I Am Enough by Grace Byers.
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