The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Keller, Elinoar , Segal, Naama Peleg

Just like I Wanted

32 pp. | Eerdmans | August, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8028-5453-7 $17.00

(4) K-3 Translated by Annette Appel. Illustrated by Aya Gordon-Noy. A girl begins a drawing but can't stay in the lines; her scribbles evolve from a piano keyboard to a horse to an airplane and so on in the childlike mixed-media illustrations. At last, the young artist transforms the drawing into a satisfying self-portrait. The rhyming text (translated from the Hebrew) is ungainly, but it's a sweet-enough tale of frustration, creativity, and persistence.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty