A conversation with her grandson led Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford to write her latest children’s book.
“What Color is Your Hand?” talks about the similarities and differences between people, starting with the colors of our skin.
Rivera-Ashford is a retired educator and bilingual author who lives in Tucson. She joined The Show to talk about the inspiration for this book — which came out of kind of an offhanded comment that her then-young grandson made.
Full conversation
RONI CAPIN RIVERA-ASHFORD: Yes, at that time he was 3 years old, and I was holding him so that he wouldn’t fall off of a stool, and he had his hands on my hands, you know, very intently, because he didn’t want to fall either, and he noticed a stark difference in the color of our hands at that time, and he seemed quite disturbed about it…