Your Name Is a Song

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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 Link to video of the author reading all of the names in the book Show more