Who Will U Be?, (Hardcover)

Being a huge Jessica Hische fan, I was thrilled to see this "wordy" book -- literally and figuratively! It tells the story of some young lowercase letters, living in a happy New York City, who go on a walkabout field trip to look where letters appear in the city. As they (and readers) discover, words are everywhere. The book is one of the longest picture books, in terms of text, that I can remember, perhaps all the way back to "Polar Express;" whether that's accurate or not, I can't say for sure, but I hope you get my point. Yet it seems entirely appropriate for a book about letters and words themselves to be quite wordy -- especially when the text is as playful, yet enlightening, as this! The illustrations are truly charming, with a fun, four-page fold-out showing words filling a Times Square-style panorama. This is really a stand-out book that I think any reader would deeply appreciate.