Book Review: My Name is Not Isabella by Jennifer Fosberry

The darling main character in this children’s story, Isabella, uses her tremendous imagination pretending to be some of the most famous women in America’s history including Sally Ride, Annie Oakley, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Blackwell (my daughter’s favourite) and the sixth role model – Mommy!

Isabella’s Mommy is they type of Mommy that most of us Mom’s strive to be, engaging and encouraging. Throughout the story, she becomes a part of Isabella’s creative imaginative scenes and goes with the flow, encouraging her to become who she wants to be. I found this part of the book quite moving and reminded myself that this was the type of Mom that I wanted to be.

This book definitely sends the message to even the youngest of girls that they have the power to become whoever they want to be, whether it be with the use of their imagination or even later on in life.

I like the fact that there is a write up in the back of the book with facts about the woman who are referred to in the story so that we can learn more about them, as I wasn’t familiar with all of them and my daughter, the curious bean that she is, was asking me all kinds of questions that I didn’t have answers for, but the book did!

This book has already become a favourite in our house and I think it just might have inspired us to write our own story similar to it with different occupations (we’ll have to do the research) that my daughter might like to do when she is older.

We need more books out there like this!