Are you like a tin can?

Not really.

How about a swimming pool?

Like a swimming pool, you are filled with water and chemicals and dirt, so you are a little bit like a swimming pool.

How about mushrooms, excavators, hyenas . . . 

Hey, wait a minute!

You know what you’re most like?

Me! 

This funny yet thought-provoking picture book from bestselling author Annie Barrows and Pura Belpré Honor award recipient Leo Espinosa offers a sequence of outlandishly fun compare-and-contrasts that show how humans are much more alike than different.

★ “This uproarious picture book works on kids’ funny bones to get across the message that, despite any superficial differences, we humans are all alike. . . . The book’s silliness makes its argument accessible to all.”
—Booklist, starred review

Annie Barrows has written scads of books for children, including the New York Times bestselling chapter book series Ivy + Bean, as well as the Iggy series, a young adult novel, some picture books, and a couple of books involving magic. If Annie could be like something else on earth, she would probably choose an excavator. Or a tiger. 

Credit Amy Perl Photography

Leo Espinosa is a New York Times bestselling illustrator. He was awarded a prestigious Pura Belpré Honor for the picture book Islandborn, written by Junot Díaz, and his illustrations have been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker. In addition to his love of drawing, Leo enjoys pedaling up and down the mountains around Salt Lake City, UT where he lives; so you could say he’s both like a pencil and a bicycle.

Credit Nicole Morgenthau

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