Say Hello! Board book – Illustrated, May 16, 2017

I read this fairly regularly at my First Five Years story times at the urban library I work for. It's a brilliant book to get started with. I normally sing my hello song and dive right into this book, because the main character walks down a busy NYC street and greets her diverse neighbors in their native language. The caregivers always enjoy shouting their responses and encourage the kids to echo the greetings.The art is cute, too! When reading aloud, I do slightly alter the dialogue in the park scene with her friends because it feels a bit forced/dated. But no one notices and the story keeps flowing.

This has been an incredibly well loved book in our house for years. I buy it for all our friends. There’s nothing cuter than your two year old saying “hello” in multiple languages because of this book. Cannot recommend enough.

Hola!- I've always wanted to learn to say "Hello," "Good-bye," and "I Love You" in other languages. My LO was born 12-3-17 and I knew reading to her would be a priority. I read about this book on a Popsugar article about diverse children's books and quickly ordered on Amazon. I love it. The character is sweet, the art is inspiring to my LOs development creativity, and I love the learning aspect of it all. It's a quick fun read with a great page on how to pronounce everything. Def recommend and keep it forever and pass it on! Ciao!

Love the illustrations and easy way to build a sense of belonging!

What a cute book! We love learning some other languages and greetings and the story is cute. We like the dog also interacting with everyone.

I love this book and so glad I got it for my baby. The illustrations are beautiful, colorful, and animated and I appreciate all the languages/religious backgrounds that are mentioned in this lovely little book. Great for toddlers and younger preschoolers and even babies.

This book is super sweet. I just wish the pronunciations were on the pages themselves instead of in the back of the book.

Love this book! It introduces little ones to diverse characters and multiple languages. My two year old loves this book and reaches for it often.

Beautifully illustrated & a lovely read

Good book, love the illustrations, and at the end explaining how to say HELLO in the different languages and how to say it.

A great investment as it will grow with your child.

This book certainly heavily stereotypes people from around the world by dress, diet, occupation, number of children - that being said, I enjoyed this book and that it teaches so many ways to say hello, and represents several cultures from around the world living together in one neighbourhood side-by-side, and all saying hello. So the stereotyping seems appropriate to tell this story. The illustration is beautiful and I will read it to my toddler, but certainly with a little ambivalence. If you’re comfortable with that, I would recommend it too.

This book was recommended as part of a list of diverse books for children which is how I came to purchase it.The idea is nice, but the characters are illustrated in a very stereotyped way which was a bit disappointing.There is a page at the back to help with pronunciation which is handy.Not sure that I would necessarily recommend this book to my friends.