What Will I Be?

by Frances Stickley, Lucy Fleming (Illustrator)

Overview

Even though you might be small, if you just believe, you could be anything at all!

What do you want to be when you grow up? A pirate or a dinosaur hunter, an engineer or a doctor? Through dressing up and imaginary play, there’s nothing these four best friends can’t be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728467849
Publisher:	Andersen Press USA
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	63 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

Frances Stickley is a primary school teacher who realized her love for writing when she was six. She is an award-winning academic, a trained chidren's literacy specialist, and a winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust short story prize in 2017.
Lucy Fleming has been an avid doodler and bookworm since early childhood. She never quite grew out of having her head up in the clouds, daydreaming. She now lives and works in a small town in England.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a good book about imagination, friendships, and the future. However, the most important part of the story is the ending, which focuses on the importance of being yourself." –Children's Literature

From the Publisher

2022-06-08
A picture book brainstorming possibilities for play and for life.

Four diverse, nameless characters try out a variety of professions. As they traipse through a house engaging in imaginative play, rhyming text encourages kids to be engineers, superheroes, and more, using everyday objects. Anyone trying to read for plot must let go quickly, as this book is simply a pep talk about believing “you can be anything at all.” Adults make cameos to put the kids to bed at the end of the night and to help with bathtime but are otherwise absent. This creates a positive feeling about kids self-directing their own destinies with the support of caring adults. Pleasant illustrations are sometimes placed against white backgrounds or against full backdrops of an imagined reality, such as trees. The visual interest on each page may be enough to maintain attention. Opportunities for seek and find, vocabulary building, and imitating activities depicted abound. However, the sheer number of possibilities presented may tire younger kids out or be overstimulating. The text is earnest and abrupt as kids go from racing dragons to pretending to be doctors to hunting dinosaur fossils in the space of a few spreads. The breadth of ideas helps ensure most will find something of interest, but they may not make it cover to cover. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

No harm done but not captivating. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews