That's My Mum

by Henriette Barkow

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Publication

Mantra Lingua (2001), 24 pages

Description

Mia, a child of mixed heritage, doesn't look like her mum and when they go out together, other people are confused. Find out how she overcomes the prejudice of being judged by the colour of her skin.

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Based on Vietnamese bilingual edition. A boy and girl are each products of interracial marriages. When they are with their dads, everyone else assumes the men are the fathers. But when they are out with their mothers, people assume the women are babysitters or that they adopted the kids. This
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frustrates the kids. They come up with a solution of making big paper badges to wear with pictures of their moms and the words "That's my mum."
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ISBN

185269596X / 9781852695965
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