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Whoever You Are
by Mem Fox
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Aims to teach tolerance by showing how, across the earth, across cultures and generations, whether children are crying, laughing, or playing, they are all alike inside although they may appear very different on the outside.

Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.

Horn Book Guide Reviews 1998 (HG98)

A singsong voice speaks in vague, feel-good terms about how children around the world are different yet similar in fundamental ways. It is hard to argue with such general assertions as ""Joys are the same"" and ""Pain is the same,"" even though they somehow don't ring completely true. The whimsical, sunny paintings, surrounded by gold hand-carved frames, outshine the vapid text. Copyright 1998 Horn Book Guide Reviews