Adorable and Adventurous

The sweetest, most adorable new book on the shelves, This is Ruby by Sara O’Leary and Alea Marley will fill you with joy.

This is Ruby is a book about Ruby, a curious, adventurous Black girl who is super excited to tell you all about herself. She wants to spend the day with readers and let us know how she spends her time.

Sara O’Leary has created this wonderful narrative about Ruby not only telling us what she likes to do but also asking the reader questions along the way, making it an excellent read aloud and a perfect book for the start of a new school year. It’s a fabulous book to use to get to know all of the new faces in classrooms in September. There are a lot of open ended questions so if you are just enjoying Ruby’s story at home you could learn so much about your little readers and create new stories of your very own together.

The art by Alea Marley is so inviting. Ruby is adorable and her world is FULL of colour and wonder. Readers will instantly connect with Ruby and the joy that exudes not just from the text but the illustrations as well. It is a book that readers will constantly come back to trying to discover something new and interesting they missed during the last reading.

I would count This is Ruby among those perfect start of school books like Chrysanthemum.