My Name Is a Story
An Empowering First Day of School Book for Kids

Adorable pictures and nice text tell the story of Ashanti's name and her becoming comfortable and proud of it. I didn't like this quite as much as Your Name Is a SongYour Name Is a Song but it was still quite good. Side note: some of the poor ratings seem to be strictly related to the audiobook versi......more

This is a very sweet and empowering book about a little girl struggling with her challenging name for others to say correctly. She gets upset that her name is not simple like the other students in her class, but her mom reassures her that her name has a beautiful background and story to it that come......more

So... as an old lady librarian, I am not familiar with this performer, so it's tricky to read this properly without a pronunciation guide. The whole POINT is getting her name right, and yet it is assumed that the readers will know it already, like Beyonce. But, believe it or not, there are folks out......more

I really liked the premise of this book! The illustrations were gorgeous as well. If I'm being picky, I wish there would have been stronger parallel structure. The same number of words mentioned for each letter of Ashanti's name, for example, and strong vocabulary that actually starts with the lette......more

I loved this book! I would read this to my students on the first day of school to get them excited and inspired for the year. I would have them do an activity after reading and tell their friends a story about their name. I think this book was so sweet and truly empowering. I loved the characters st......more