I Talk Like a River (Libro en Inglés), de Scott, Jordan. Editorial NEAL PORTER BOOKS, tapa pasta dura, edición illustrated en inglés, 2020

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Nombre: I Talk Like a River (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Neal Porter Books

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Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

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.

A New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year

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 Greenaway Medalist Sydney Smith. A book for any child who feels lost, lonely, or unable to fit in.

Finalist for the BC and Yukon Christie Harris Illustrated Childrens Literature Prize
A Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book
An American Library Association Notable Childrens Book
ILA Primary Fiction Honoree

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Shelf Awareness, Bookpage, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Publishers Lunch, and more!
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year!
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A CBC Best Picture Book of the Year
A Kids' Book Choice Award Finalist

From School Library Journal

Gr 1-4-In first-person narration about the author as a boy, this debut brings readers into the world of dysfluency, that is, stuttering. The narrator, a white boy, sits alone at the kitchen table before school, imagining how badly his day will go, and it's even worse. The letters M, P, and C bring special terrors for the garbled sounds they demand of him in a school day, when the teacher asks students to describe a favorite place. His solitude is, for readers, almost unbearable until he returns to his understanding father. He knows about a "bad speech day," and takes his son to the river. There, without many words, he explains how his son talks like the river, with ebbs and flows, a rush of sounds, emotion, and meaning streaming. The boy's dawning realization brings the story to a resonant pause, in a foldout that opens to a vast four-page spread of the sparkling waters that surround him. And then the remembrance resumes, for when he returns to school, he talks about his special place in his own manner, his dysfluency making him and his telling unique. Smith's lyrical, color-saturated paintings capture mighty nature as well as the blurred, staring faces of schoolmates, who mock and laugh but mostly do not understand the main character's inner world. An author's note, in tiny type but very personal and expressive, outlines the journey Scott has taken to make peace with himself.

Review

"A brilliant way of thinking about a stutter." - Ed Sheeran

"An empathetic conversation-starter for families seeking help for a young or not so young person who stutters." - The New York Times

"This wrenching and beautiful book will give succor to children who stutter and expand the hearts of those lucky enough to take fluency for granted." - The Wall Street Journal

"This important (and stunning) book promotes self-acceptance . . . as well as empathy" - The San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the most powerful books that I've read in 2020." - The Globe and Mail

"lyrical and empowering"

MÁS DETALLES:

Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 1 cm x 24 cm x 26 cm
Modelo: 9780823445592
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Neal Porter Books
Titulo del libro: I Talk Like a River (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Scott, Jordan
Fecha de publicación: 2020-09-01 00:00:00
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: Illustrated
Editor: Neal Porter Books
Número de páginas: 40
ISBN-13: 9780823445592
Edad mínima sugerida: 1
Genero literario: Infantil - Juvenil
Contenido del paquete: 1 libro
SKU: 9780823445592