Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Your Name Is a Song
$24.95
- Author's previous book Mommy's Khimar was selected as a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.
- Illustrator is the 2018 winner of the Dilys Evans Founders Award for Children's Illustrators.
- Cover reveal in Fall 2019 on the Mr Schu Reads blog
- Features author Q&A including her proposed Shelf talker for this book:
"What would you do if no one could pronounce your name on the first day of school? Read this story—a musical celebration of diverse names—to find out how a young girl teaches others at her school to say (and sing) her name correctly." -
List of names, pronounciations, and origins at the back of the book
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Link to video of the author reading all of the names in the book
