Why did I love this book?
This book teaches the importance of community-building. It celebrates diversity and inclusion as both a strength and asset.
It dispels the myth of race by focusing on our shared humanity and common destiny. It gets to the basics that our DNA is 99.999% similar hence building common ground across differences.
It also encourages each of us to discover the values of love and kindness.
I shared this book with my students as a tool to explore their cultural heritage and build new connections.
1 author picked The Smallest Spot of a Dot as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Now a New York Times bestseller! Using child-friendly language, this playful picture book explains how genetics make each person unique and celebrates how we are more alike than different and are all part of the human race. In The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same, Linsey Davis, bestselling children’s author, Emmy-winning correspondent, and host for ABC News, together with co-author Michael Tyler, encourages children to find their own unique dot with sweet, rhyming prose.
”Only .1% of our genes make us uniquely who we are. We are 99.9% identical, alike,…
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