I loved this delightful kids story. The illustrations are wonderful! So colorful and full of life. The books starts pointing out all the differences in kids. Then it goes into how they are all the same also. A great story for young kids. I Highly recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley, Xochitl Dixon and Our Daily Bread Publishing for an Arc in exchange for an honest review.

I love how this book was multicultural and showed how differences need to be celebrated. This is the perfect book to incorporate into all classrooms, no matter what grade or subject level. I will be purchasing a copy right away. I can see how many discussions will be started using this book as a model in classrooms.

This was a great book for children about celebrating diversity! It has a nice Christian intro and Bible verses throughout the book. I also loved the illustrations and the text per page was short enough that kids won’t lose interest.

Thank you to #NetGalley for the chance to read and review this book. I read it with my daughter and we absolutely LOVED it. It has such an important message, one that is especially needed in the world right now. That while we may all look or act different, we are also similar in many ways, and those are the things that count. It was beautiful to see so many different representations throughout. The illustrations were STUNNING! Highly recommend this one.

As an adoptive family with a biracial child, we love finding books to add to our collection that celebrate diversity, acceptance and love from a Christian perspective. This beautiful new children’s book, a first from author Xochitl Dixon, is just perfect for our young daughter’s bookshelf as we explore the various ways God has created us and the people around us. I adore that through the beautiful illustrations in this book, we can discover and celebrate children with different skin tones, body types, disabilities and even likes and dislikes.

For a young child, this book colorfully and simply demonstrates that families or friends don’t have to match and may have different cultural interests and food preferences, but reminds children that inside we still experience the same feelings, fears and joys.

It also reminds children in a soft and gentle way that we are all good at something and have kindness to share with the reminder that God created us all different but special in His own image. The illustrations offer the cutest little journey with a big fish balloon who joins a large group of diverse balloons and is yet another precious reminder of togetherness and community. I enjoyed the scripture at both the beginning and the end of this book and can appreciate how this book will spark excellent conversations about diversity and differences.

A top recommendation from our family to yours for children ages 2+.

What a wonderful story to explain that while we all may look different, we all feel the same emotions!

Right now, I am trying to teach my three year old daughter about emotions and being kind to others. She is having a hard time sharing. While I'm sure she doesn't yet notice the differences between other children and herself, she still needs to learn to be kind. This book is a perfect edition to her growing learning library to explain that other children may look different and come from different backgrounds, but we all still can be hurt and feel love just like "me".

The illustrations in this book are adorable and full of color. Each child in the story looks different however they all still relate and interact with each other beautifully.

This book is Christian based with passages from the Bible as inspiration to further conversations with children.

Different from Me is a very cute book about accept people differences. I think this is a very important subject for children to learn young and Xóchitl Dixon did a great job presenting the topic in a way children will understand. The illustrations are beautiful. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone with children.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This picture book starts off as a play group of school-age kids meet up and have a picnic. The group is made up of children who are suppose to represent different races, ethnicities, and abilities. The star of the book is a young girl who brings her Japanese kite shaped like a fish. The fish is animated, so its facial expressions change with the mood of the story. Drama occurs when it gets caught in a cluster of trees. The text of the story has rhyming lines describing the differences and similarities of people in general, and illustrated by the interactions of the kids. The bright images invite the eye to look closer for details. The ending is a little unexpected, so this is a delight, too. The book begins and ends with scripture and a section with questions can be used in churches, homes, and Christian schools.

Thank you to Our Daily Bread and NetGalley for the digital galley. My reviews and opinions are my own.

This book is beautiful and so important! The illustrations are beautifully done; they are bright and colorful and engaging for children. And the message is one we adults need to share with our children! It celebrates diversity while showing how we can all relate to other people. I loved this book and am planning on getting a hard copy of it when it releases so I can share it with my children over and over again.


I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This picture book celebrates differences in children that make them unique and special. The bible scriptures at the the beginning and at the end of the story centers God's handiwork in creating human beings in his image and likeness. The illustrations feature ethnically diverse and differently-abled children who find joy in playtime and interactions with each other at the park. They learn from their mistakes and express gratitude to God for life and living each day to the fullest. The rhythmic lines and catchy phrases create an interplay of language that grabs young readers' attention. This picture book makes a great addition to households and churches. It teaches value in self-acceptance, grace, joy, and love among children.

This book is so damn beautiful and very much needed.
It's always better to talk about the issues of race, different people we are going to come across right during the formative years so kids understand what is being meant by we are all human beings and no one race or community shouldn't get mistreated (as kids learn from what they see and observe).

We adults are at a loss for words when it comes to such topics on how to explain in a way that they understand.
This book does justice to this.

The illustration is like a perfect dream.

Everything is perfect!

I need this one as a physical copy when it comes out.

The thing to think is it is difficult to change ourselves as adults when we are brought up in a segregated environment. So why not start from here with such books to change all that?

Thank you NetGalley for this beautiful ARC.

Good idea message-wise for the Christian community. Wouldn't use it in my classroom.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I like the message of this book but wish it had a more immediately positive framing. The first half of the book is about differences and doesn't address that differences aren't good or bad. Books like Same, Same, but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw point out differences but immediately explain how differences aren't a bad thing. Children's need see the correlation that we are different but that's okay more quickly to make the association. I love that this is a Hispanic author and a book that shows diverse characters.

Such a beautiful book releasing at the right time! Celebrating our differences yet pointing out how we are similar. The rhyming text along with the beautiful illustrations keeps young ears engaged. This would be a wonderful gift for any young child in your life.

I received an electronic ARC from Our Daily Bread Publishing through NetGalley.

Such a cute book! The story follows the narrator as they point out the differences they have with other children. The soon realize that maybe they aren't so different at all. I love the illustrations. They are bright and colorful. The illustrations show quite a diverse group of children (disabilities, different hair, different ethnicity) which is so important. The book does have religious references so it would be best for at home readings or church groups. In the back of the book there are questions/discussion guides to use with your child. This is definitely a book I would consider adding to my daughters library.

A copy of this book was made available to me through netgalley. These opinions are my honest review.

loved the whole book. It was great, it showed how every kid is different and yet they are all the same. We may look different, act differently, have a disability but we are all the same, we feel the same way, happy, sad, angry, grumpy, joy.

Book Review—Different Like Me

We’re ALL different. That’s the message of this new picture book.
We’re ALL alike. That’s the message of this new picture book too.

Different Like Me
written by Xochitl Dixon, illustrated by Bonnie Lui
published by Our Daily Bread for Kids (August 2020)
hardcover picture book, 32 pages, 9 x 9 inches

Cultural diversity, check. Physical disabilities, check. Communication differences, check.
But the kids in Different Like Me are also very much alike.

I love for children from different ethnic backgrounds to be able to see themselves in picture books. The bright, exuberant illustrations in this book do that and pair well with the whimsical text.

An opening refrain about differences changes as the diverse group of children works together to wrangle a huge fish balloon to its surprising—and perfect—destination:

“I look all around me, and what do I see?
So many kids, not so different from me.”

It’s what’s inside, our feelings, that make us more alike than different.

And as the book ends, the refrain changes again:

“I look all around me, and what do I see?
God made every kid different …
and special, like me!”

Because there’s more that unites us. We’re all made by God, in His image.

Scriptures from Genesis 1 and Psalm 139 open and close the book, like treasured bookends, to make this point.

The book’s dedication includes “anyone who’s ever felt weird, out of place, or misunderstood.” That’s just about everyone! Different Like Me helps children appreciate everyone’s differences and assures them that we all have a special place in the world.

This was a sweet, beautifully-written and -illustrated poem about how we are all different, but that God made us all special and—in many ways—the same.

The poem weaves in and out of illustrations of children who have all kinds of differences, but who work together and help each other. I find the book incredibly timely and relatable, and helps children understand why we are all valuable from a Christian perspective.

This is a lovely picture book with an important message that is simply and sweetly written. The illustrations are very appealing. The book is intended to appeal to children and is not heavy-handed in its messaging, which is much appreciated in the realm of children's books! Thank you for an advanced copy in exchanage for review.

This is a children's book I will definitely be purchasing to share with my future children one day. It explores how we all have differences but we are also very similar. It has children of all different walks of life throughout the book along with a bunch of different animal balloons and I thought it was a really good and created way to start conversations with children and a really good book to have.