My unique family! - with JayJay & Totte

JayJay and Totte are two Swedish-Haitian-American brothers who live right outside of NewYork City together with their Swedish mom and Haitian dad. They speak English, Swedish and Kreyol.Their skin is just that perfect suntanned color all year around and they have nice curly hair and brown eyes. Sometimes Jay Jay feels like people are staring at him, especially when he speaks Swedish with his mom. One day he asks his mom why people are staring at him. Why he is different. What do you think his mom answers?This is the first book in the series about Jay Jay and Totte.In this world there are more and more culturally, linguistically,religiously and “racially” mixed families. Our children arestanding firm in their multiculturalism - what a great start in life! But how do we answer their questions? How can we help children from families with just one culture and one lan-guage to appreciate our children’s diversity? The Jay Jayand Totteseries raises these questions and show ways of answering and explaining to our children. The books also show us parents and our mixed children how unique they are and help us encourage them in the diversity.

Michelle Cadeau is the mom of two Swedish-Haitian-American brothers who live right outside of New York City. She has be active in multilingual and multicultural identity questions for a long time. The idea for the Jay Jay and Totte books came many years ago but now when her Jay Jay and Totte are older she had time to make them actual books.