Review: The Skin You Live In Is a Kids’ Book for Today by Two Chicagoans
Hey, look at your skin The wonderful skin you live in! It’s whatever you do skin, be happy it’s you skin. You can’t live without it – I’m glad it’s me too skin! And look at the shades it comes in – the shades of your colorful skin! Your coffee and cream skin, your warm cocoa dream skin… Your chocolate chip, double dip sundae supreme skin! Your marshmallow treat skin, your spun sugar sweet skin. Your cherry topped, candy dropped, frosting complete skin. Your pumpkin pie slice skin, your caramel corn nice skin Your toffee wrapped, ginger snapped, cinnamon spice skin!Tyler is a Chicago freelance writer focusing on social and political issues and commentary. He has also written Water for the Soul: A Father’s Hope for His Son (a collection of life-lessons and observations) and Sow the Seeds: A Composition in Verse (a poetry journal), and he was the ghostwriter for Fries, Thighs & Lies: The Girlfriends’ Guide to Getting The Skinny On Fat (with Deborah Arneson, clinical nutritionist). He is currently working on a novel trilogy as well as other children’s books, television pilots and screenplays. Csicsko is a Chicago-based designer and artist who has worked in a wide variety of projects at nearly every scale, from small privately commissioned prints to his more recent explorations in large-scale stained glass and mosaics. He says his work celebrates the “diversity and richness of the human imagination, and expresses the joys of life through his dynamic use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns.” The Skin You Live In is published by the Chicago Children’s Museum. They’ve announced a reprint of the hard copy edition will be available in August. For now, the book is available as an e-book. (Personally, I much prefer reading an actual book to my grandsons.) The book is hard cover (the 2019 reprint has a dust jacket) and the size is 9.5 by 9.25 inches. Watch the Children’s Museum website for availability of the new printing. You’ll also be able to order it online and from your favorite bookseller. And if you’d like your own personal reading of The Skin You Live In, the author will read it to you himself. https://youtu.be/iEvwTx-96AI
Nancy S Bishop
Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.