Say My Name: Importance of Names
The school year has already started for a lot of kids and if it hasn’t yet, the school year is right around the corner. It’s important to share books about the excitement and anxiety of starting a new school year or riding the bus to school. But, you don’t often see a booklist about the importance of a child’s name. The significance of a name comes from a child’s family, their culture, their history, and sometimes just because their parents’ love it. Say My Name: Importance of Names is a list full of picture books about the significance of a child’s name.
Pernille Ripp, a wonderful educator, wrote an extremely eye-opening essay on her own name and how the pronunciation of her name has been lost here in the U.S.
Booklist
- Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
- Always Anjali by Sheetal Sheth
- The Change Your Name Store by Leanne Shirtliffe
- Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
- Hello, My Name is Ruby by Philip C. Stead
- How Nivi Got Her Names by Laura Deal
- My Name is Bilal by Asma Mobin-Uddin
- My Name is Elizabeth by Annika Dunklee
- My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada
- My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed
- My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
- The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
