The Big Mix-Up 
Text by Riccardo Bozzi
Illustrations by Zosienka

A topsy-turvy story about transformation, diversity, and identity.

One sunny, windy morning all the animals around the world woke up looking different.  

The lion woke up in the skin of a zebra. The tiger woke up wearing the coat of a cow. The fox woke up looking and smelling like a skunk. And so on, and so on.  The animals not only looked different, they began behaving like the ones they resembled. What had happened? And why? And how?

What does it mean to look, feel, sound, and be different? Playfully written and beautifully illustrated, this picture book will be a great discussion starter at home and in the classroom. Like the turtle in the story who experiences “feeling as fast and as free as a bird,” there’s great power in embracing the otherness in ourselves.

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