PICTURE BOOKS
(3) K-3 A girl longs for the courage to talk to some peers on their way to school, but something keeps preventing her: fear, represented as a crosshatched monster that dogs her on nearly every page. This marvelously attuned story is told with the help of comics-style panels but no words until the girl manages to utter the most necessary one: "Hi."

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