Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an excellent starting point for encouraging boys and girls of every background to believe in themselves. In addition, it models sentence structure for beginning to write simple texts.
Author and publisher: Grace Byers, Balzer + Bray
Summary: In this book, many children of different backgrounds express what they are capable of doing when believing in themselves. However, the book also opens up for making mistakes and “I may not win at all I do. I may experience defeat.” The message is that “My presence matters in this world.”
