Liv Has the Words

Liv is not a quiet person. She is a loud person in a language nobody here speaks.

Liv has been in 3A for six weeks. In her old school she talked all the time — she was the funny one. She still is. You just cannot hear it yet. In her head the sentence is perfect; then it comes out in English and it comes out small. So people talk to her slowly. And loudly. She is not deaf. She is new.

This is book 2 of six. All six are set in the same classroom, 3A, with the same six children. In every other book Liv is just someone in the background. In this one, you see the world from the inside.

What is in the book

• 14 illustrated spreads, written for children aged 6 and up
• Short lines and simple words for children starting to read alone
• A page of Liv's own advice: don't talk louder · wait three seconds, the sentence is on its way · play something that needs no words
• A page for the grown-up, with three questions to talk about afterwards

How it works

The situation is never labelled in the story. The child simply tells you how the world feels. Learning in a new language — and why the "quiet" label outlives the language gap — is explained on the last page, for the adult reading along.

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