My name is not Isabella

Isabella has quite the imagination. This book is a great way to introduce your child or your students to great women in history. The message tells little girls that they can do anything they put their mind to. My students enjoyed getting to know the women in history and I learned some new things

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myself.

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My Name is Not Isabella is a cute short picture book about a little girl with a big imagination. Throughout the book Isabella's mom is asking her to do things and each time Isabella tells her mom a different name to call her. What is interesting about each name is that it is the name of a famous

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women from the past and Isabella imagines she is that person and pretends to have done whatever that woman is famous for. The pictures were colorful and vibrant. I loved how at the end of the book there are short paragraphs and a small picture of all the historical women that were mentioned by Isabella. It is a great book for young girls age 4 to 7.

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Very timely book for us, since my 3yo repeatedly insists, "My name is --" and then produces an entire different persona, different name, different age, etc. She's got several of these personas. This book features "Isabella" who pretends to be "Rosa" (Parks), "Sally" (Ride), "Marie" (Curie), and a

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bunch of other famous women from history. So as soon as we read it, "Isabella" joined my daughter's cast of personas.

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Summary: This book is about a girl named Isabella that continually says she is a particular woman from history. In one part she says her name is Rosa, "the bravest activist who every was". She continues to change who she is throughout the day until she returns to herself when she goes to bed.

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Personal Reflection: I can relate to this book because when I learn about a new person, I always wonder what life was like when they were around. This curiosity is evident in children and this book shows that history can be involved in everyday life. This book brings history to life and makes it more relatable for children.

Classroom Extension:
1. The students could take one person from the story and find out more about their lives. They could find how they influence their lives today and the interesting things about their life.

2. The students would choose one person from history that they would want to be and find out as much information they possibly could. The teacher could have a day where they students come dressed as their historical figure and tell the class about their life.

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This is a wonderfully delightful picture that introduces students to some of the strongest female figures in history, all seen through the eyes of a little girl named Isabella. In the end Isabella becomes empowered due to imagining being these other women and decides that it's also good to be

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Isabella. I feel that this book is a great read for students K-5 as a read aloud to either introduce famous women in history or review such people. The illustrations and text work very well together and this story is very engaging over all.

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This is a very good book to teach character traits.

Isabella loves heroic women in history. Throughout the day, she is pretending to be different historical or significant figures such as Sally Ride, Rosa Parks and even her own mother! This books introduces children to a variety of strong women throughout history without feeling awkward or forced.

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It has been loved by all the children I've read it to thus far, boys and girls, and is definitely one to buy! New York Times Bestseller and winner of several minor awards.

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Very interesting and educational; Isabella is a little girl who personifies five of the greatest women in history. It is a little game she plays with her mother.

Comments on Use: Great book to introduce students to influential women in our history. After reading this book you could have students pick a famous woman in history and research her. This book has several examples of women in history. From this book you can also talk about how people influence who

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we are and this can be taken to small group discussions about who personally influences each child.
Age: Early, Intermediate
Media: coloring

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Genre: Realistic Fiction

Critiques: This is a realistic fiction book because it tells the plausible story of a young girl thinking and acting out the role of historic women of the past. She uses pretending as a means of acting as though she is one of the women throughout her everyday actions. For

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example, on the bus ride to school, she pretends to be Rosa Parks, reflecting on Rosa's bravery.
This book has an interesting intrugal setting because it portrays the setting of the main character's life (waking up, eating breakfast, going to school, etc) and then uses the setting to relate to a historic time period or place. This causes the setting to be necessary to follow the storyline. The illustrations and text are critical to be aware of so that the historic character can be recognized.

Media: digital

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This book is good when you teaching character traits because Isabella is different people throughout the book.

Dreaming through the journey of discovery in the mind of a child, the student will learn science, history, determination, strength and honor. It showed patience and unconditional love. Lots of vocabulary, dialogue, easy read. The illustrations are spacious and distinct. Cross curriculum: science,

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math, ELA, art, and women's history. Great source for storytelling, reenactment , and fun.

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This book is good for talking about kids dreams they want to do for life.

This is a wonderful book to use for repetition of phrases and linking real world people to fiction and to students in real life.

This pattern book is great not only for it's ability to speak to the power of imagination, but would be a good way to start a study on famous women in history. It can help encourage girls without "dissing" boys.

This realistic fiction book is a great bridge between the story and biography. It can be used as a mentor text to show how to write pieces of realistic fiction based on our own lives. If students are having trouble embellishing the truth in their writing to peak interest, this book can be shown in

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order to bridge the gap between reality and fiction.

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This book was so super cute and so true. Kids are always day dreaming about what and who they want to be. It shows kids to always use your imagination and work hard so you can grow up to be whoever you want to be. This book would be great for Kinder and First.

This little girl evolves from herself into other powerful women throughout history. She teaches a small synopsis of each woman as she impersonates them and gives a little hint as to what their major accomplishment was. This is good for teaching about women in history, and also the importance of

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sometimes just being yourself.

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would use this book to teach how good reader make and confirm predictions. This book would be a wonderful book to use to teach how good readers summarize a book.

This story was really cute! It would bring out the imagination in my students. I really enjoyed the illustrations. I also loved that she wanted to be important women in history. I really liked this historical fiction book.

This book explains many different famous women how have been influential throughout their time. As the character in the book goes through different situations in her day she changes into different women who have been successful. This book inspires young girls to dream big and know that anything is

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possible.

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This book is about a little girl named Isabella. However, when her mom comes to wake her up in the morning she tells her mother her name is now Sally and she is an astronaut. For the rest of the book everytime her mother asks her to do something Isabella changes her name and occupation to fit that

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of an influential woman in society. Before she goes to bed she becomes Isabella again. At the end of the story there are short biographies of each of the women that Isabella imagined she was.

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From the very start of Isabella's day she does not want to be called by her real name. She wants to be called Sally, the first woman from the United States to travel into space. Later, she wants to be called Annie a sharpshooter, Rosa an activist, Marie a scientist, and Elizabeth a doctor. During

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her conversation each time she wants to be called a famous and influential women in history with her mom she infers by giving small details about each of the women. However the final women she wants to be just like is her mom. In the back of the book there are small snip bits of information about each of the women referred to in the text.

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This book is about the confrentation of a little girls name. When her mother wakes her up she deciedes what she wants to be called. At breakfast she changes her name and occupation again, and once more when her mother calls her to wait for the bus. She becomes Rosa Parks, the bravest activist there

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ever was. She changes her name when it comes times to tackle her homework, set the table, and take a bath. All names have to do with being the best "there ever was". When it was time for her to go to bed she became Isabella, who was the sweetest, bravest, greatest girl there ever was. That night she dreamt about all the people she could become. This book is appropriate for elementrary aged children. The genre is realistic fiction.

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