All Are Welcome (2018)

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All Are Welcome Book Cover

All Are Welcome is an image book that celebrates  variety by showing how children  in a classroom all develop and learn from one another's traditions. This book is composed by Alexandra Penfold and illustrated  by Suzanne Kaufman distributed in 2018.

Summary

Front endpapers show grown-up parental figures strolling their charges to class, mix families that incorporates interracial, same-sex, and hetero couples as well as  single guardians; the back endpapers gathering them again at the conclusion of an effective schoolwide evening potluck. In the middle, the rhyming  verses focus parts of a common school day, continually finishing with the titular phrase: “Time for lunch—what a spread! / A dozen different kinds of bread. / Pass it around till everyone’s fed. / All are welcome here.”[1]

Inspiration

Kaufman's explanation behind making this art are because around year of 2017 when President Trump intended to travel boycott, she felt a profound misery and vulnerable. Her little girl's primary school is compromise predominately of immigrant families and from many religious backgrounds. She wanted every children realize that they are protected and welcome at their school. She chose to do something with one thing she could give for free, which is her art. Therefore, she remained up the entire evening and made a poster to invite every one of the children to the school the following morning. From that point forward, she posted it via online media to print for homerooms. Since posting, it has been printed by teachers cross country to tell their families they are protected and welcome in their schools.[2]

Reception

All Are Welcome encouraged children to be who they are, and celebrates their differences. Perhaps the most staggering displays of inclusion is the representation of the playground, where children wear hijabs, yarmulkes, shorts and baseball cap, skirts, and jeans. Their hair is in braids, a patka (a fabric head covering worn particularly by Sikh boys), long and short, and the Black hair is natural.

Through other details, similar to the food at the lunch tables and the various types of families, the message that everybody is welcome and acknowledged as they are is warm and powerful.[3] All Are Welcome tells young children that no matter what, they have a place, they have a space, and they are welcome in their school. Drawing in expressive content, accessible illustrations make this book a must  for each kid's shelf, classroom and library.[4]

References

  1. Kirkus Reviews. All Are Welcome. Retrived on December 16, 2020.
  2. Pragmatic Mom. The Story Behind ALL ARE WELCOME Retrieved on December 16, 2020.
  3. Kingsley, Carrie. All Are Welcome. Retrieved on December 16, 2020
  4. Waterstones, All Are Welcome. Retrieved on December 16, 2020.