A review by ljrinaldi
Calvin Gets the Last Word by Margo Sorenson

4.0

I love books that assume that kids want to learn new, longer, more descriptive words. This book tells the story of a younger brother trying to come up with a word to describe how he feels about his brother making him laugh just as his mouth is full of milk.

The story is essentially told from the point of view of the dictionary, by the way.

(I would have thought Calvin would have consulted a thesaurus instead of a dictionary, but it still all works)

So, while Calvin searches for just for the right word, the picture book illustrates the words he finds, but doesn't want to use. Or rather, the dictionary finds.

A cute story of love of language, and love for siblings, even if they do want to make you laugh so hard milk comes out of your nose.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.