email me
| Picture Book lists menu |
|
How to Feel Better: Coping & Working With Emotion |
| Encouraging Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box |
|
Finding Friends: A Sense of Belonging |
|
Even Grouches Can Change: Looking Past Assumptions & Attitudes |
|
Pure Fun: Laughter & Joy |
|
Feeling Loved & Safe: Nurturance |
|
Being Yourself: Accepting & Believing In You |
|
Inner Strength: Strong Girls & Boys |
|
Fantasy & Magic: Let Your Imagination Soar |
|
Love of Words: Celebrating Books, Writing, & Language |
|
Bedtime Soothers: Night Time Doesn't Have to Be Scary |
|
Super Heroes: Feeling Strong Through Hero Identification |
| Teen Book lists menu |
|
|  |
| This book was the best! You won't be able to put it down—and you won't want to. Worth every penny! |
| |
| A great read. Don't let this book pass you by. Recommended! |
| |
| A good book. Worth checking out. |
|
| Passes the time...if you can stay engrossed. I didn't enjoy it much, but it may appeal to some people. |
|
| This book didn't work for me. But that doesn't mean it won't work for you. |
That Don't Preach
I Like Myself!
Review
I Like Myself!
by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow
Harcourt Children's Books, 2004. ISBN: 0152020136
My rating:
I like myself!
I'm glad I'm me.
There's no one else I'd rather be.
I like my eyes, my ears, my nose.
I like my fingers and my toes.
I like me wild. I like me tame.
I like me different and the same.
--I Like Myself!
by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow, p. 1-7.Beaumont uses upbeat rhyming text to encourage readers to like themselves, inside and out, no matter what they look like. I Like Myself!
Exuberant watercolor-and-ink paintings in bright colors depict a joyful African-American girl and her dog. The paintings are at times reminiscent of a modern Dr. Seuss, with a Seuss-like bicycle, clawed-couch, and fun out-of-proportion people and objects, and this is further reinforced by the rhyming text.
The overt messages about liking yourself may be off- putting for some readers (it's not in a story form which may be more easily absorbed) but it may be a balm for many people who need a boost of self-esteem. Every child should hear the loving messages in this book. The text combines serious messages with humor, and the playful illustrations greatly add to this. ("I'd still like me...with/ beaver breath or stinky toes/or horns protruding from my nose.")
This book encourages readers to realize that it doesn't matter what other people see you as, you can and should like yourself for who you are. A book that will fill many needs. Recommended.
Want more books?Go back to Being Yourself: Accepting & Believing In You to find another great picture book.
Or, go to the Picture Book reviews main menu to see all the categories of books.
my books:
Dragon Speaker: The Last Dragon is a hi-lo (high interest, low vocabulary) fantasy for teens and fantasy lovers, from HIP Books.
A boy who speaks with birds is the only one who can save the last dragon....
SCARS, my realistic fiction teen book, comes out in 2010.
15-year-old Kendra was sexually abused as a kid. She doesn't remember who her abuser is, and she doesn't want to. When her memories get too painful, Kendra cuts herself to escape. But then her abuser, through notes, threatens to hurt her if she names him. Kendra must remember who abused her before it's too late.