👶 A Gentle, Real-World Way to Teach Toddlers About American Life

Not all cultural learning happens through flags, maps, or holidays.

For young children, culture lives in everyday life. It’s what they eat for breakfast, how they get to school, who sits around the table, the neighborhood park, the music playing at home.

That everyday world is exactly where My First American Coloring Book: Everyday Life in the U.S., Made for Little Hands comes from. This toddler coloring book introduces childhood life in the United States in a simple, welcoming, and realistic way. It will be released exclusively on Amazon.

This book is not just for families living in the U.S.

It was thoughtfully created for:

  • Immigrant families raising children in the United States

  • First-generation children or children growing up between cultures

  • Binational and multicultural families

  • Parents who want to introduce new cultures early on

  • Educators and caregivers who believe empathy starts in childhood

Kids drawing on the book My first american coloring by Jessica Gabrielzyk

What Is My First American Coloring Book?

It’s a children’s coloring book that presents everyday American life through scenes that reflect real childhood experiences: routines, food, school, music, celebrations, and familiar places.

No overstimulation.

No crowded or overwhelming scenes.

Each page was designed for small hands and growing minds, featuring:

  • Bold, simple illustrations that are easy to color

  • Clean layouts with minimal visual noise

  • Space to point, name, talk, and create

The book follows a child’s world in a natural, progressive way:

  • Me

  • My day

  • My people

  • My place

It’s a coloring book, but also a book for conversation, observation, and revisiting again and again as a child grows.

Why Is a Coloring Book Also a Cultural Book?

Because children learn through what is normalized.

When children see different foods, ways of playing, celebrating, and living everyday life, they expand their emotional and social understanding long before they can explain it in words.

For families living outside their country of origin, books like this help to:

  • Give visual language to a child’s lived experience

  • Build bridges between home, school, and the wider world

  • Reduce cultural unfamiliarity

  • Validate hybrid identities

For families who do not live in the United States, the book works as a window. It offers a gentle, respectful, and accessible way to introduce American culture without stereotypes.

Raising Kinder Children Starts Early

When culture is presented as everyday life rather than as “something different,” curiosity replaces judgment.

Simple books used on the living room floor, at the kitchen table, or before bedtime help raise children who:

  • Observe more

  • Fear less

  • Respect differences

  • Grow with empathy

This book doesn’t teach about the United States.

It shows how life can be lived—and that makes all the difference.

Part of the Little Everyday World Collection

My First American Coloring Book: Everyday Life in the U.S., Made for Little Hands is part of the Little Everyday Worldcollection, inspired by children’s everyday lives around the world.

The idea is to introduce cultures through what is common, human, and recognizable—because belonging can also be built with crayons.

📩 Want to be notified when the book launches?

If you’d like to be notified as soon as My First American Coloring Book becomes available on Amazon, leave your name and email on the launch list.

You’ll be the first to know. No spam—just a simple reminder when the book goes live.

🛒 Coming soon — exclusively on Amazon


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Jessica Gabrielzyk

Como autora brasileira especializada em vida de expatriados, escrevi “Maternidade no Exterior”, “Criando Filhos no Exterior” e “Mudando para o Exterior” para ajudar famílias a enfrentar os desafios de se realocar internacionalmente. Meu objetivo é capacitar outras pessoas a abraçarem suas novas aventuras com confiança e tranquilidade.

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