When I was born, I kept my eyes squeezed shut so tightly that my mom called me Mr. Magoo from a cartoon she loved. My dad said I was going to be bilingual, like him, so he called me El Señor Magoo.
Little Antonio has a LOT of names. Different relatives call him different names, but the real culture shock happens when he goes to school for the first time. A celebration of biracial heritage and cultural identity from award-winning Cuban American storyteller Antonio Sacre, My Name Is Cool teaches children to be proud of their heritage and the things that make them different. Different is COOL.---from the publisher
32 pages 9781641706575 Ages 4-8
Keywords: school story, biracial, cultural identity, heritage, being different, being yourself, self esteem, self image, Social Emotional Learning, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, accepting others, Latino and Hispanic, Irish
