Desirée Acevedo Silvia Àlvarez
To all the people who love and care for this colorful world. —Desrirée Acevedo The human race is like the perfect picture, in which all of the different colors combine in perfect harmony. —Silvia Álvarez
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The Color of Your Skin Text © 2021 Desirée Acevedo Illustrations © 2021 Silvia Álvarez © 2021 Cuento de Luz SL Calle Claveles, 10 | Urb. Monteclaro | Pozuelo de Alarcón | 28223 | Madrid | Spain www.cuentodeluz.com Original title in Spanish: El color de tu piel English translation by Jon Brokenbrow ISBN: 978-84-18302-40-4 1st printing Printed in PRC by Shanghai Cheng Printing Company March 2021, print number xxx All rights reserved
Vega loved to draw. She imagined that she was a great artist and the refrigerator where her mom hung her artwork was part of a famous museum. Today, she was drawing a special picture for her mom, and hoped it would make it into the gallery when she got home from school!
Her friend Alex stopped by, and peered into the box of pencils Vega had on her table. “Can you lend me the skincolored pencil, please?” he asked. “Skin-colored?” said Vega, thoughtfully.
“Do you mean the color of your skin, or the color of my skin?”
“Or the beautiful brown skin of my neighbor Vincent? It reminds me of caramel.”
Hay personas que, por alguna razón, lo pierden todo. Rodrigo fue una de ellas. Rodeado de escombros, tuvo que empezar de nuevo y, gracias al amor que sentía por su familia y por aquella tierra, recuperó la ilusión y la esperanza. A su vez, encontró ayuda y cooperación en otros que atravesaban su misma situación. Entre todos, recogieron una nueva cosecha cargada de frutos que sirvió para encontrar su hogar en el mundo.
Vega and her friend Alex wonder why the pencil in the box is called 'skin color' when it doesn't match either of them. This question leads them on a beautiful journey of exploring the diverse array of skin colors they see in their world. Together, they discover how to bring all of them into their art.