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Blue Bums: The truth about mixed race babies, from a mixed race baby

by Tendayi Oborn

A child-centered introduction to mixed-race family life

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A child-centered introduction to mixed-race family life

Drawing on the author’s experience of marrying across racial backgrounds and raising mixed-race children, this illustrated children’s book addresses cultural diversity and inclusion through family life. Its subject is the everyday questions and topics mixed-race children navigate, presented in a child-friendly way. The illustrations depict the author’s children, connecting the book’s themes to the family experience behind it. The description also positions the book as a resource for adults who want to engage with these topics alongside children.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young children beginning to encounter ideas about race, culture, and family diversity
  • Parents and caregivers looking for a child-friendly starting point for conversations about mixed-race identity
  • Adults interested in an illustrated account informed by a parent’s personal experience

Themes

Mixed-race identityCultural diversity and inclusionFamily experienceChildren’s conversations about race

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Book overview

Blue Bums, the truth about mixed race babies from a mixed race baby was written by Tendayi Oborn. Featuring creative cover title by Martyn Oborn. It canvasses controversial topics navigated by mixed race children on a daily basis. Blue Bums explores cultural diversity and cultural inclusion in a child appropriate and child friendly manner. Blue Bums is a great educational tool and a dynamic resource in this global landscape. Blue Bums is a children's book but it will also appeal to the adult reader. Blue Bums is a passion project detailing colour illustrations of the author's own children: Arnja and Ruslan.

Blue Bums is based on an immigrant's own personal experience of having married into a different race and having mixed children.

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