This book teaches children that they are important. This book teaches children that they are powerful. This book teaches children that they can change the world.
Age: 3-6
Source Amazon

Great book. Full of good lessons for our children and ideas of how they can be helpful to others. This book is a sweet message to encourage kids to be themselves regardless how different they think they are. A must read little ones. ( )

There is no one quite in the world like you and that is what makes you so special. This story touches on all the different personalities, perpectives, and individualities that people possess that amke them so unique and special. It sends the message that no matter who you are you are valued, important, and make a difference in this world. I enjoyed the book and thought it was very cute but I did feel like it was missing something for me. But overall still a cute book. ( )

A gentle title meant to encourage readers to recognize their individuality. It's ok to be bold, sky, quiet or last. I found it clever that the children are marching through the books and reminded me of the saying march to the beat of your own drum! Illustrations are pencil sketches and mixed media then digitally painted and add to this beautiful story. Recommend as a read aloud to a group.
Recommended for Pre-K to 1st Grade ( )

Author Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrator Patrice Barton join forces in Remarkably You, a new inspirational picture-book meant to encourage children to use their talents to do good things in the world. Whatever their personalities, whatever their interests, the rhyming text here exhorts the reader: "Don't sit on the sidelines. / Be part of the fray. / Go after your passions a little each day. / Find what needs fixing. / Repair what you can. / Then choose a new problem and do it again." Ending with a message of affirmation, the story concludes that the listener/reader is "remarkably you..."

Remarkably You is the second inspirational picture-book I have read in the last few days, following upon Samantha Berger's Rock What Ya Got. Unlike the Berger title, which I found somewhat unbalanced in its exploration of the idea of self-affirmation, here I thought that author Pat Zietlow Miller got it just right. Rather than being a rejection of change, as was the case in the well-meaning Rock What Ya Got, which seemed to equate any attempt at self-improvement as a form of self-hatred, here the narrative calls for change at the very beginning, encouraging readers to get involved in the world around them. Every bit as affirmational as the Berger book, with similar messages about self-acceptance, Remarkably You offers the kind of balance I mentioned as being missing, in my review of Rock What Ya Got. The engaging text here is paired with lovely artwork from illustrator Patrice Barton, whose work I have encountered (and enjoyed) in such titles as The Invisible Boy and Hello Goodbye Dog. All in all, a sweet new picture-book, one I would recommend to those looking for children's books that encourage both a sense of self worth and a sense of engagement with the wider world. ( )