Arree Chung Mixed: A Colorful Story Children’s Picture Book

Perfect for toddlers!

This is such a great book for my 2 year old! Not only do we get to practice naming our colors, but we also get to start learning the idea that all colors are beautiful!

Love this book!!

My three kids love it !! My 6yr old immediately said “oh! primary colors”.. my 4 yr old thought It was funny and my 1 yr old tried to copy the older kids and loved opening the book to see the colors!!

Full of harmful racial stereotypes

As a mixed race family - and mom to two kids that absolutely love mixing paint colors - I was excited to see such positive reviews and really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, it's full of offensive and harmful racial stereotypes. Take the yellow dots. The yellows are the smartest, and are drawn with exaggerated Asian eyes and disproportionately wearing glasses 😩The red ones - which are the loudest - are drawn wearing hats, etc clearly associated with Black culture. Sure, some people might say NBD (who presumably haven't had the headache of dealing with racial stereotypes like this there whole lives), but what I totally don't get is all the reviews holding this up as a great example of a book promoting understanding about diversity. It's just the opposite - reinforcing stereotypes that pigeonhole minority groups into restrictive stereotypes. Who is writing all these reviews about how great the book is for promoting diversity? I assume people who totally don't get what it's like to be pigeonholed into a caricatured ethnic stereotype... Please don't add this book to your school library!!!

A ‘colorful’ story on diversity :)

I love that this teaches two different Houston begs to my young children - colors (primary, secondary etc) and the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Definitely a worthy addition to our rich family library!

P.S I was also very impressed by the packaging of the book so I took a couple of pictures to show that as well.

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July 3, 2018

An instant classic fit for any home library

As a mother of mixed race children I really responded to this book and ordered it for our home library. The cleverness of the color theory illustrations make this book so memorable too. My kiddos squealed when Blue and Yellow decided to get married but we all fell in love with Green. She is my favorite character! Such a special book about diversity and inclusiveness and LOVE :) Would make a good gift at a baby shower even (especially if the baby is bi-racial).