Mixed Me- Multicultural

Author: Taye Diggs

Illustrator: Shane Evans

This book is a multi-cultural book about a little boy named Mike, and some of the kids called him "Mixed Up Mike". Mike has curly red hair, tan skin, and green eyes. The kids at his school tells him that his parents do not match, and when they are as a family people stare at them. However, Mike loves the way his parents looked. He loves his dad's brown bald-head, and his mom's cream and honey read hair. Mike thinks that his parents mix perfectly together and has the highest confidence within himself as well as his apperance.  

Genre: This book is multicultural. It shows just how diverse the book is from Max's parents being of two different races, to Max himself excepting everyone and not caring about who was what color and how they were different. 

The illustrations in this book is filled with  rough textured fabrics and very vibrant and colorful mixed media. Each illustration throughtou the book are drawn with pen, and painted with very bright and colorful water colors. The illustrations are outline style art. "Outline style art emphazise line and reduces features to simplify shapes." (Galda,Cullinan,&Sipe, 2010)

Classroom Activies:

1. Have the students paint potraits of them and their parents.

2. Have the students write down three things that they love about themselves, and three reasons why they love there parents. 

Readers Response Questions

-What was the nick name that the kids named Mike?

- How did Mike describe his parents?

-How confident was Mike?

Did Mike get along with everyone at school?

Personal Comments: This book is such a great read, it not only teaches kids to embrace their appearnce, it also teaches them to have confidence in themselves, and know that everyone is not the same and to respect them as well.


Diggs, T., & Evans, S. (2015). Mixed me! New York: Feiwel and Friends.

Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworths, Inc.