Awards
- Commended for Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production (Audiobook) 2022
- Commended for Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production 2022
- Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Picture Book) 2021
- Winner of Schneider Family Book Award (Children's) 2021
Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jordan Scott ,
Sydney Smith
Publisher: Holiday House Inc
Imprint: Holiday House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 26.10cm
Weight: 0.442kg
ISBN: 9780823445592
ISBN 10: 0823445593
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 01 September 2020
Recommended Age: From 4 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
At this extraordinary book's center, a double gatefold shows the child wading in shimmering waters, his back to readers, his face toward sunlight. His father pulls his son close and muses that the boy 'talk[s] like a river, ' choppy in places, churning in others, and smooth beyond. . . . An astounding articulation of both what it feels like to be different and how to make peace with it. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Author Information
Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of two National Film Board of Canada projects, Flub and Utter- a poetic memoir of the mouth and STUTTER. Scott was the recipient of the 2018 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry. I Talk Like a River is Scott's first book for children. He lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island with his wife and two sons. Sydney Smith is an illustrator of picture books whose work includes Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson; The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; and Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, which was awarded the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal and the 2018 Children's Literature Award. He both wrote and illustrated Small in the City, which Kirkus Reviews called ""Extraordinary, emotional, and beautifully rendered."" in a starred review. School Library Journal said ""The use of line, reflection, and perspective masterfully evoke a bustling gray city."" in another starred review. Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes, a School Library Journal blog, said ""Small in the City is one of my favorite books of 2019."" His accolades include a Governor General's Award for Illustrated Children's Books and three successive New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year citations.
