librarianryan 's review for:

Phoebe Sounds It Out by Julie Zwillich, Denise Holmes
2.0

Learning to write your name is not easy, especially if it is not spelled as it sounds. While in general I like the story, kids sound out words to learn to write their names, I am disappointed in the further lesson. The teachers let Phoebe write her name as Feeby, even though Phoebe knows it’s wrong. She just assumes her mother was wrong. I think this book would have been much better if their was a lesson on how sometime mixing letters creates new sounds. Because of its oversimplified concept, this boo is a miss for me.