Back matter includes a glossary of names featured with pronunciations and origins. Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. A resonant tale that honors and celebrates a rich landscape of names. Shop Barnes & Noble Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow online at. In subtly surfaced illustrations rendered digitally by Uribe, the girl traces names-including Trayvon-through a mellow-toned sky. They make a way out of no way, make names out of no names-pull them from the sky!”), Momma imparts wisdom that her daughter shares the next day, teaching her name’s correct pronunciation by singing it, and classmates’ names, during roll call. She is the author of Mommy's Khimar, Your Name is a Song, and is a contributor to the. Describing the musicality of names, Momma encourages her daughter to “tell your teacher that your name is a song,” and expounds on others: “Take the name, Olumide (O-loo-muh-DAY)./ Olumide is a melody, girl! And so is Kotone (KOH-tow-neh).” With a creative answer for each of the child’s hesitations (“Made-up names come from dreamers. JAMILAH THOMPKINS-BIGELOW is an educator and writer who centers Black and Muslim children in her work. Distraught that her classmates don’t pronounce her name correctly, a Black girl in goldenrod overalls complains to her Ummi, who wears a coral-colored headscarf, on the walk home. A conversation between a girl and her mother distinguishes this poignant second picture book from educator Thompkins-Bigelow.
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