Same, Same But Different, By Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Same, Same but Different, written and illustrated by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw is set in two different places of the world. I choose this book because it was comparing and contrasting different places; America and India. The pen pals, Elliot and Kailash, write to each other about how they both love to climb trees, have pets, and ride a school bus. There world’s are different but they are very similar. It helps readers realize that not everyone is the same and we all have differences. “Kostecki-Shaw learned the saying ‘same, same but different’ to compare cultures throughout the book as they learn about each other” (Smith, 2011, 84). It shows just how one simple saying can be used to represent how everything in someone has a difference. Another
The awards it has won are: Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award (2012), Ezra Jack Keats Book Award New writer (2012) , and South Asia Book Award (2012). The format is carrying on a conversation going back and forth between first-person. It’s important to read to children because starting them at a young age they continue to read by themselves at older ages. This also increase there S.A.T scores since they have been listening to speaking for years. Young kids are always asboring what is being said or acted around them. They are observers of everything since surroundings are influential to them. Reading stories to young children will allow them to learn words faster and become fluently quicker. Reading aloud to children it will give them more interests in books. It improves all attitudes about reading from negative to positive ones. “But in reading aloud, we also: build vocabulary, condition the child’s brain to associate reading with pleasure, create background knowledge, provide a reading role model, plant the desire to read” (Trelease, 2013, Ch.1,1). Since infants do use their eyes to see words. So people able to read are the ones to read-aloud and have them take in the words with their