This is a juvenile adaptation of the themes from Brandon
Stanton’s larger, adult audience Humans of New York and Humans of New
York, Stories, both of which shared small biographies of ordinary,
everyday New Yorkers accompanied by Stanton’s street photography. In the
adult books, the stories that accompany the photographs can range from
highly emotion, to humorous, to inspirational. For this “kids version”,
the stories are made a bit more simplistic by the message put across in
the book is still a great one — we’re all part of the fabric of our
world, and make our own unique contributions. The photos are crisp and
clean, and feature dozens of cute kids, from extremely multicultural
backgrounds. This is a terrific book to introduce kids to diversity
issues, as well as to the broader scope of Stanton’s adult works.
[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try
Humans of New York, and
Humans of New York, Stories, both by Brandon Stanton.]
[ official
Humans of New York (HONY) / Brandon Stanton web site ]
Recommended by
Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library
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