It's Okay To Be Different

Title: It’s Okay To Be Different
Author: Todd Parr
Illustrator: Todd Parr
Genre: Fiction

It’s Okay To Be Different is a very simplified book filled with examples of how people can be different and letting the children know that it is okay to be different. One of the examples the book gives is, “It’s okay to have a different nose.” In this world we live in now it is so important that we reiterate this with our younger population. There are so many standards and images that children learn through TV shows, magazines, social media etc that they “have” to live up to, and we need to start teaching them at a young age that it is okay to be different.

This book is a great read for pre-k and first grade, the pages are full of color and the drawings are very simple for the young children to understand. It teaches the children that it is okay to have different features than their classmates, they are special in their own ways. It is also great for the young students to hear these things coming from their teacher whom they all look up to.