 Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is the novelty corner and today I'm very excited to share with you my review of This Is Me by Sally Morgan, which is a gorgeous, gorgeous little book. Sally Morgan is an Australian First Nations author and this book was originally published in February 2022 and somehow I have missed seeing this book because I love Sally Morgan's books and anytime I see one that I haven't seen before I generally try and grab it and this one is just such a good little book that'd be great in any F2 Classroom. So this book was published by Magabala Press and on their website they said, this is me by Sally Morgan is a beautiful board book about self-acceptance that all parents care as grandparents and families will love to read. They're babies, toddlers, forever children that have been chosen and to all children full of personality and sass. It's a simple, elegant book about unconditional love and is the perfect way to reinforce to all children that they are unique, important, special, just the way that they are. That's exactly what this book is. It's very short, it has very simple text but big, beautiful, colorful illustrations and it celebrates that self-acceptance and the way that every person is special and unique, wonderful just the way they are. So as I said, I love all of Sally Morgan's works. I need to, you know, finish collecting the rest of the books of hers that I don't have because I have quite a few but I can always do with more. It is written for young children and their families but it could definitely be used in Foundation New One or Year Two because it is all about knowing yourself and loving yourself and a lot of the work that we do in Foundation New Year Two around well-being has to do with this. I mean you could definitely use it beyond there but it is a fairly simple text so it's perfect for that younger age group. The positive message is just gorgeous and we need more books like this because this is just a celebration of being who you are. I love that on each page there are words that are highlighted. These are words that you could pull out and you can have a discussion around. It's also a really great book for making text to self-connections and thinking about the ways that you show love for yourself. You could absolutely create a class book around this and I think you could also absolutely use this as a way of inspiring children to write about the things that make them special, unique, enjoyable, it'd be a great writer's notebook activity using this as a mentor text. What makes you you and what do you celebrate about yourself? It would be perfect for that. As I said, I absolutely love this book. I'm going to leave links to where you can check it out down below. If you have any comments or questions feel free to leave them down below otherwise if you want to let me know that you're here but you don't leave a comment feel free to leave a star emoji. I hope that we're here on the world just staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye everyone.