SuitabookLost for Words
Natalie Russell
- Reading
- After reading, invite your child to choose any way to make something—a drawing, a few words, a tune or another idea—without comparing the result with anyone else’s.
- Themes
- Different ways to create: Tapir’s friends write poems and stories or compose a song; Tapir finds drawing suits him. The story presents different creative forms as valid ways for the friends to express themselves.
- Feeling daunted by comparison: Tapir finds writing difficult while his friends seem to create easily, and he becomes upset. The plot makes Tapir’s discouragement clear, but the available details do not establish a broader judgement about comparing oneself with others.
- Worth knowing
- Tapir’s frustration is explicit: he becomes upset as he struggles to write.