Kindle Edition Amazon Terri Kelley Books Terri Kelley Books Category:  Children Publisher: Sunshine Press ISBN-10:  1489524711 Type: Fiction Pages: 40 Copyright: July 2013 ISBN-13: 9781489524713 Price: $2.99 (eBook) A little boy is told all of the time that he has beautiful "almond eyes". This confuses him until his mother explains. A young boy is told all of his life that he has beautiful “almond eyes”. He is, of course, confused by this until his mother explains. She points out that it is the shape of his eyes that make people say this to him. He then starts to notice all of the different shapes, sizes, and functions of his friends’ eyes. What he learns after everything is heartwarming and worthy of reading over and over. Excerpt Ever since I was little, I have heard the same thing: “Oh, what pretty eyes! You have almond eyes.” What do people mean by that? When I asked my mom what they meant when they said my eyes were like almonds, she said that it was because I was part Korean. That is what made my eyes the shape that they are. At first, I looked at everyone else to try and see if they had almond eyes too. I did not want to be the only one in the world with nutty eyes. As I looked around, I started to notice a few things.

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Reviewed by Katelyn Hensel for Readers' Favorite

Almond Eyes by Terri Kelley is a lovely children’s concept book, which encourages acceptance of the differences that make each child unique. Sometimes, diversity is a confusing topic to children. They don’t understand it when adults comment on their “Almond Eyes” or any other kind of feature. To them, everyone in the world is the same until parents open up their eyes to the differences that exist.

This particular book focuses on how each child has different eyes and how to explain the differences that exist in the world, and that every child has beautiful eyes in their own way. Almost every eye in the spectrum is represented, including some of the more “out of the box” kinds of eyes like blind eyes, glass eyes, and cross-eyes. The book includes a lot of information in an cute and informative way that will definitely appeal to younger children.

I thought that the colors and illustrations went with the text very well. The illustrator, Alwin Galera Fernandez, used a combination of bright and happy colors to create a visual message for the children that really helped the point of Terry Kelley’s story sink in. The best part of the book was the amount of inclusion that occurs. This is definitely a great book for an older pre-schooler or a kindergartener so that they can be introduced to the idea of differences in a safe and friendly manner. I would definitely buy this book for my own kids. Almond Eyes is a really helpful start into the world of diversity.