May Saves the Day

By Laura Gehl and Serena Lombardo

From her trendy suit to her messenger bag, May is the picture of a successful businesswoman. After all, she is founder and sole proprietor of Word Saver, Inc. Carrying her trusty bag of letters, May saves the day again and again, turning angry BEES into playful BEETS and a rampaging BEAR into a silly BEARD. Stu begs to be her sidekick, but May insists that a businesswoman does not need a sidekick. However, May quickly realizes that teamwork may be the word of the day when a tornado threatens the town. Author Laura Gehl brings word play to a new level in this adventurous and humorous picture book, featuring spirited art by Serena Lombardo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781684463015

Laura Gehl

Laura Gehl is the award-winning author of more than three dozen picture books, board books, and early readers including Who Is a Scientist?, I Got a Chicken for My Birthday, Dibs!, and Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways to Save our Planet. A former science teacher with a PhD in neuroscience, Laura lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband and four children.

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[librarianryan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a very fun picture book about a girl who is NOT a superhero, she’s a business woman. May’s business is saving the day by adding or taking away letters from attacking words and making them easier to tackle. The illustrations are full of diversity. May is a person of color, and Stu (who wants to be her sidekick) is white and in a wheelchair. This story is about neither of those things, but it is lovely to see them represented, even if the authors do not share those characteristics.