This book had fun pictures, they were colorful and the little details in each of the drawings were entertaining. It's a great book to develop self-esteem and encourage the children to like who they are and what they see in the mirror. It shows kids that nothing is weird. All the kids in the book are different. There are boys and girls and kids of different ethnicity's. and their stories are all connected and the statements go throughout the school day. The girls writing is in cursive and the boys writing is in standard print. Most of the "I'm Gonna Likes.." are positive and some are negative that are made into something positive that the individual will still "like". The book sends messages like: it's okay to be wrong if you try and it's okay not to be a winner all the time, which I think are important messages to send to students, especially at a young age. The two things that bother me is the grammar and the phrase "I'm gonna like me when..." because in school, they students are always doing Daily Oral Language and learning proper grammar but yet this book is promoting students to use those words. I know that's how most little kids talk but that doesn't teach them to use proper language. The other thing that bothers me about the book is that half the writing is in cursive and is hard to read, especially for the younger kids that this book is aimed toward. Cursive isn't taught until around third grade, so it's going to be kind of hard for a second grader to read this book. I think this book had good intentions but there are still some little things to fix to make it easier and more grammatically correct for young children to read.
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