# I Talk Like a River

**Author:** Jordan Scott
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2020
**Page count:** 46
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780823445592`
**ISBN-10:** `0823445593`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/i-talk-like-a-river
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. A New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can't say them all . . . When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Compassionate parents everywhere will instantly recognize a father's ability to reconnect a child with the world around him. Poet Jordan Scott writes movingly in this powerful and ultimately uplift

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2021 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

### Odyssey Award (Best Audiobook)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Odyssey Award (best audiobook) winners + honors, via Wikipedia — 2022 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_Award)

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