I'm really torn on how to rate this book. On the one hand, I get what it's trying to do and like many reviewers I love how the author referred to people coming in different "shades" rather than colors. The book shows children playing in various scenarios, and talks about how people come in "cocoa," "rose," "almond," etc. That's nice. 
 One the other hand, this book has made my son obsessed with skin color. It's had the complete opposite effect from what I was hoping for. Because the book is busy labeling the different shades, he's now interpreted that to mean it's important to label shades of skin. Kids learn what's important by watching us, and by reading this book to him I've just essentially told him labeling skin color is important. Holy shit. We almost immediately stopped reading the actual text to him and instead talked about what the kids are doing, asked him to find a child with glasses, a barrette, and so on. Even so, he hasn't forgotten and will point to a child and ask if that one is "coffee." It took something he hadn't really remarked upon, and told him it was both important and remarkable. 
 The pictures themselves bothered me too. They were, photographically speaking, unimpressive. This is from a complete amateur, but I found them distracting. In one instance the focus of the camera is on a brick wall behind the child, in another instance the whole scene is blue-tinted like we're seeing it underwater. That's fine to post to your Facebook page, but a little more professional imagery should be expected in a book in my opinion. 
 In the end, every other review thus far is universally positive so I feel like I'm missing something or maybe my son is too young for this book. But it's not one we'll be revisiting when he's older, so two stars it is.