No Difference Between Us

<p>Jess and Ben are twins. Jess is a girl and Ben is a boy but in all the BIG ways there is NO difference between them!<br /> <br />Explore with the children in your care the important issues of gender equality and respectful relationships. Combining cheerful illustrations and a simple but effective narrative this book will help children to understand that fundamentally there is no difference between us.<br /> <br />This book encourages equality and respect for each other from the earliest of years. In order to reduce gender-based violence we need to teach gender equality and respectful relationships to young children. What better way than through a picture storybook? Children are visual learners and the match between illustration and text in this story will assist them to understand that we are all human — everyone feels and everyone has hopes and dreams. Our gender should be and needs to be irrelevant.</p><p>Throughout the text open-ended questions are provided on each spread so children have the opportunity to talk about their own experiences — allowing the child to have a voice. There are more in-depth Discussion Questions on pages 30 and 31 encouraging the reader and the child to think about each scenario and engage with the message.</p><blockquote><p>“We’re all people with feelings aspirations and dreams . . . no better or worse . . . it’s the little differences that make us unique but it doesn’t change the big ways that we are the same.”<br />Susannah Low Designer and mother of two daughters</p></blockquote>