"Looking Like Me" By: Walter Dean Myers

The book Looking Like Me is a really neat book. It's about this boy, Jeremy, who is figuring out who he is. With the help of friends, family, and people he knows he's able to see all the different things that make up who he is. The illustrations are collages, and the poems are on pieces of black paper with white ink. The pages are put together in such a way that the text is part of the illustrations. The illustrations are collages that combine pictures, colorful paper cut into the shapes of people, and colorful ink.
My favorite part of this book was the last page. At the end of the book the author and illustrator used the about the author and illustrator page to show how they came up with the book. It says, "We've looked in the mirror and what did we see? Two handsome dudes and a..." I liked this page because it showed pictures of them when they were young, and then the list of things that make up who they are. I thought this was a great page because I could see using this idea as an opener for writers notebooks. The students could write a poem about what they see when they look in the mirror. They can either use the literal meaning of what they see or they could write their poem about the person that they see when they look in the mirror. I think this is a great book, and I plan to use it in my future classroom.