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I Talk Like a River

I Talk Like a River

Smith, Sydney
Scott, Jordan

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0823445593
ISBN13: 9780823445592
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Published: Sep 1 2020
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.40 Width: 9.10 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production, Schneider Family Book Award
Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner
A New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year

What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to?
Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing.

I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me.

And I can't say them all . . .

When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Compassionate parents everywhere will instantly recognize a father's ability to reconnect a child with the world around him.

Poet Jordan Scott writes movingly in this powerful and ultimately uplifting book, based on his own experience, and masterfully illustrated by Sydney Smith, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to author and illustrators of children's books. A book for any child who feels lost, lonely, or unable to fit in.

Finalist for the BC and Yukon Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize

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