My Name Is Not Ed Tug

𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁-𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱-𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱

If you are still using a name-identity book published in the early nineties featuring an anthropomorphic creature named after a flower, it is time to put the book away. There are many recently published and more relevant name identity books available today. “𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳,” you might say. “𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤,” you might argue. It is not for you and me to decide which book should be placed on the pedestal of a “classic”. Our duty as educators is to present a wide variety of relevant books to our kids – books that represent the truth of the current times. If we stick to the tried-and-tested instead of providing children access to the relevant-and-robust, we are just taking it easy…

Here's one more book on name identity. Have you given it a try?