The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The names of the author and illustrator “Jordan Scott” and “Sydney Smith” are written in white caps at the bottom of the cover. Directly above this, the title “I Talk Like a River” in larger white caps. The background is a painting of a young boy stood in a river. The water goes up to his waist. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Bullying

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Summary:

What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing.

I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me.

And I can’t say them all . . .

When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he’d like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Compassionate parents everywhere will instantly recognize a father’s ability to reconnect a child with the world around him.

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Notes:

This book is written in poetic verse.

There is an audiobook.

There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

I read that the pictures in this are watercolour paintings, and that just fits so well doesn’t it.

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