Book Description
for Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A small biracial child and white woman burst through the door of a kitchen where a Black woman and a light-skinned pony-tailed man are getting ready to cook. With each page turn, more people enter and begin to chop, stir, peel, and sizzle whatever ingredients they have to prepare a community meal. Short couplets are paired seamlessly with dialogue bubbles and bright-hued illustrations showing many aspects of diversity among the neighbors-race, ethnicity, size, and age. Several different kinds of disability are also depicted, including the woman in charge of the kitchen, who uses a cane. What at first seems to be a frenzied chaos soon reveals an order and a purpose, a coming together in camaraderie and community. (Ages 3-6)
CCBC Choices 2021. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021. Used with permission.