My Words by Grant Snider
Published by HarperCollins on October 27, 2020
ISBN: 0062907808
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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At the beginning of the book, the narrator announces that she loves words. She then goes back to talking about when she was a baby and didn’t have any words. The story carries the reader through babbles to first words to a growing vocabulary. It ends with the narrator using her now expansive list of words to write. The illustrations in this book are simple, colorful, and complete the story. The text is sparse so the illustrations add a lot of the context to the story. Overall, the book isn’t bad, but the message isn’t very clear. A second purchase for larger collections. Recommended for readers 3 and up.

Reviewed by Jessie Trafton, Skidompha Library, Damariscotta, ME