Here is a list of additional children’s books that can be used to supplement this unit on concepts of beauty:

-     Beautiful Buehla: and the zany zoo makeover – Gary Hogg (2006)
               - A zookeeper wants to take a picture of all of his animals but he thinks
               that the animals need to be cleaned and freshened up before taking the
               picture.  He calls Beautiful Buehla who comes and gives makeovers to
               all of the animals.  Now that the animals no longer look like
               themselves, Buehla says they are ready to take their picture.  Right as 
               the photographer begins to take the picture, the elephant sneezes and
               blows all of the makeup and hair-dos back to how they originally were. 
               Everyone realizes that the animals look best just the way they were in
               the first place.

-          No Mirrors in my Nana’s House – Ysaye M. Barnwell (1998)
               - A young girl is visiting her Grandma, and there are no mirrors in her
               Grandma's house.  The young girl realizes that she can appreciate the
               beauty of everything around her without having to worry about the way
               that she looks.  No one feels the pressure to judge themselves based
               on skin color or beauty in Grandma's house.

-          Nappy Hair – Carolivia Herron (1997)
               - While also raising issues that African-Americans have dealt with 
               throughout history; such as slavery, this book talks about the beauty of
               a young Black girl's very curly hair and why she should be proud of 
               having this "nappy" hair.

-          It Came from Outer Space – Tony Bradman (1992)
               - While at school one day, a spaceship crashed into a classroom filled
               with students.  The children were terrified of the creatures, and were
               even more frightened when the aliens took off their helmets and
               revealed their faces.  Throughout the entire story, the faces of the
               "aliens" are never shown.  The aliens ended up being nice creatures
               and became friends with the students, so before they left to go back to
               space, the class took a picture of the aliens to remember them.  On the
               last page of the book the author includes the photo of the aliens that
               the children took.  The reader finally realizes that the aliens actually
               looked like humans and the children at the school had green faces and
               three eyes. 

-          My Dadima Wears a Sari - Kashmira Sheth (2007)
               - This book would also apply very well in a unit on types of  
               clothing that people of different cultures wear.  In this story, a
               young Indian girl in America talks about her Dadima (Grandma) who
               wears a sari every day.  She asks her Dadima if she ever wants to wear
               "normal" clothes like jeans and t-shirts like the rest of the people        
                wear.   Her Dadima tells her that she never wants to wear anything
                but  a sari.  The young girl comes to realize how truly beautiful saris
                are and how important they are to their country and their culture.