necessaryfictions's reviews
243 reviews

How Are You, Verity? by Meghan Wilson Duff

4.25

so sweet and colorful! love a casual nbi child main character :)

Lost Inside My Head by Vigg

4.5

i am not a puppet. i am not a fox, and i am not a crow either. i am not everyone else. i am not the chaos. i am me. and i can find my light.

i really loved this! the illustrations are brilliant, especially the double page spread with huge bold black letters detailing every aspect of sensory overwhelm followed by the page of the child, in such a small image, how much he has to push through. too long for a read aloud, but such a great way to capture the struggles of being a kid with adhd

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

excellent cadence and rhyming and i love how it lays out the power in difference

The Unstoppable Jamie by Joy Givens

4.0

i really liked how sensory overwhelm and regulation were portrayed here! 

Flap Your Hands: A Celebration of Stimming by Steve Asbell

i like this!! lots of room for a movement exercise in a group of kids. i'll ask the adults in the room to do the same, and follow the words

I Go Quiet by David Ouimet

4.5

sometimes when i go quiet i read. when i read, i know there are languages that i will speak. when i read, i know there is a world beneath my branches. when i read, i feel that every living thing is part of me. i think i may be part of everything too.

you could live a whole life in these illustrations, the feeling they carry with the words! great book for talking about different minds with kids i think

The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

found this on the street and read it on the way to work very cute :) charming art style!

Jacob's School Play: Starring She, He, and They by Ian Hoffman, Sarah Hoffman

4.25

from the outside, we can't see who anybody is on the inside. so we have to trust them when they tell us.

i've liked the illustrations in all of the jacob books but they really shone with all the costumes and play setting and movement here! yay nonbinary kids :) if i do have children, i'll read these books to them for sure

Jacob's Room to Choose by Ian Hoffman, Sarah Hoffman

4.5

i really liked this. it has very earnest and tuned in emotionally writing and a very sweet author's note that explains the connection the authors have to protecting and embracing gnc kids. the activity to show the children the narrowness of gender conformity and all that exists outside those lines was really sweet and i love kids. i like their bathroom signs better than ours!

A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry

4.0

trees make the woods.
they make everything beautiful.

simple and does everything it sets out to do, i think. does a great job at illustrating the depth of our connection and reliance and community with trees. the book being long lengthways to give more room to show scale is a nice choice and the alternating colorful and black and white pages are fun