The world needs more purple people summary
The World Needs More Purple Schools
Reviewed by Zapoura Newton-Calvert
Review Source: Reading Is Resistance
Book Author: Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart
Much like its prequel, The World Needs More Purple People, The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, and Daniel Wiseman celebrates a “purple world,” where “different people come together to mix their stories, their ideas, and their smarts to make something special.” The illustrations are colorful, with diverse children and teachers learning, playing, and asking big questions. Readers are welcomed by Penny Purple, the same white protagonist as in the first book, and are shown various school and community scenarios illustrating the tenets of purple-ness, including curiosity, hard work, silliness, speaking up, and “just being you.”
In her review of the first book in the series, Social Justice Books Program Specialist Paige Pagan wrote, “In Bell and Hart’s attempt at unity, they actually fall into tropes of divisiveness through colorblind racism and blindspot bias. Children are left with a contradictory sense of social identity.” The sequel continues these patterns and prescriptive formats rather
Kristen Bell’s ‘The World Needs More Purple People’ sends all the wrong messages
Painting the world purple is a lot more dangerous than you may think. I and many others, for this reason, are sceptical of Kristen Bell’s new book: The World Needs More Purple People. It is about a “purple person” who “looks for similarities before differences”.
I wanted to discuss the accusations of Bell’s book, mainly the colourblindness that will encourage children to read it. The growing reality of non-black people teetering on a perceived fine line of allyship is also an issue.
We exist in a world where posting videos stating you accept responsibility without acting with said responsibility in mind is allyship – ahem, the “cringe worthy” anti-racism PSA that featured Kristen among other celebrities. And with much of Hollywood pulling back from their decisions to voice roles designated for minorities, this decision is not entirely radical but expected.
There are plenty of issues with Kristen’s use of her celebrity status towards her activism, and her book unfortunately cannot receive the blank slate it is asking for. The narrator Penny Purple, in all her plum-coloured glor
Book Review: The World Needs More Purple Schools
REVIEWER: Zapoura Newton-Calvert
BOOK TITLE & AUTHOR: The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart
🔴 Not Recommended
Much like its prequel The World Needs More Purple People, The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, and Daniel Wisemancelebrates a “purple world,” where “different people come together to mix their stories, their ideas, and their smarts to make something special.” The illustrations are colorful, with diverse children and teachers learning, playing, and asking big questions. Readers are welcomed by Penny Purple, the same white protagonist as in the first book, and are shown various school and community scenarios illustrating the tenets of purple-ness, including curiosity, hard work, silliness, speaking up, and “just being you.”
In her review of the first book in the series, Social Justice Books program specialist Paige Pagan wrote, “In Bell and Hart’s attempt at unity, they actually fall into tropes of divisiveness through colorblind racism and blindspot bias. Children are left with a contradictory sense of social identity.”The
The World Needs More Purple People
💜 Purple is a magic color made when red and blue work together.
I consider all the best things in the world are purple 💜
and here steps to turn into a purple person, one of them :
Paint your self purple
wait, it's a joke 😀
But really this adorable purple picture book contains a surefire steps to become a purple person and also includes a touching and warm inspirational message that will make you decide to become a purple person, and you should,
Cause the planet really needs more purple people to make it wonderful, cheerful, joyful and warm.
I'm delighted cause I love purple hue and all purple things in the world,
I'm glad produce i'm a purple person,
Let's color the world with purple ~
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13.06.2021
The World Needs More Purple People
Reviewed by Paige Pagan
Review Source: Teaching for Change
Book Author:Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart
The World Needs More Purple People is designed to teach early elementary children that they should be inquisitive, humorous, kind, outspoken, diligent, and authentic, which are all essential qualities indeed and according to the protagonist, Penny, all needed to become a purple person. The moral of the story, which is an activist one — becoming purple, the magical color “made when red and blue work together” (p. 3) — doesn’t stop at the reader, there needs to be a collective move towards a world of purple people, a world where we “share and forget what we thought made us different” (p. 13). In Bell and Hart’s attempt at unity, they actually fall into tropes of divisiveness through colorblind racism and blindspot bias. Children are left with a contradictory sense of social identity.
Making everyone purple erases the beauty of human difference and most simply, of color. While the book features children of various ethnic and racial backgrounds, the goal of the visibly Caucasian protagonist is to neutralize all children. Penny’s final ste