‘My name is Lupe and there is no one quite like me.’

‘My skin is brown. My hair is dark and curly. I look different from the other kids at school. What am I?’

Lupe’s mother’s answer to this question empowers readers everywhere to embrace the fact that they are different; that we are all different. Not because of how we look, but because of who we are.

Lupe is a daughter. She is a big sister. She is a friend. She is smart. She is fearless. She is funny. She is beautiful. She is enough. We are all enough.

This warm-hearted own voices story will inspire little readers to embrace the things that make them who they are, and give parents and teachers a wonderful opportunity to talk about and celebrate the diversity in all of us.

Sela Atiola (Author)

Sela Atiola is a Tongan Australian writer from Sydney, Australia. She is a mother and early childhood educator with a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and a Bachelor of Social Science from Swinburne University of Technology. Her poem ‘O Daughter of Oceania’ won the 2021 Mayoral Creative Writing Prize, and her work has been featured on SBS Voices and Storycasters Colournary Magazine. Sela is a member of Sweatshop in Western Sydney.

Yani Agustina (Illustrator)

Yani Agustina is an illustrator from Singapore.