Something Special for Me audiobook

Rosa gets to choose her birthday present from the money her mother, grandmother and Aunt Ida saved up. She visits store to store to find her perfect gift but has second thoughts every time. This book teaches some valuable lessons that children can identify with like the importance of delayed gratification and well-thought-out decision making. Also slips in the acceptance of non-nuclear family settings which should be accepted as a norm.

After the family spent the money jar on a chair for Mama in the first book of the series, it is now time to spend the money that is now in the jar on Rosa. Rosa is a typical girl; she can't decide what she wants. Eventually, however, she settles on an accordion. That will be featured in Music, Music for Everyone.Once again, the illustrations are wonderful. Vera B. Williams has crafted a very family-oriented series of stories.

I loved this book and how it made me feel i was on a journey with Rosa to purchase the perfect gift with the money of the full coin jar. At the end of the day Rosa picked out the most awesome gift which was an accordion, it was something new and different and something she could fall in love with.

I love this book.

I love the connection a reader could make with Rosa. There has come a time were we are indecisive as to what we would like. I think any child would love this book.

This book could be used to teach students the importance of saving and thinking to make sure we make wise decisions.

A cute story about finding the perfect gift for your birthday. I felt similar to the character when trying to decide what to buy and having to decide if it was something I really wanted.

This story highlights how Rosa got her beloved accordion. She is faithful to her family and is not greedy about what she buys. I love the illustrations as well.

I really like this series. I think they are comforting and nostalgic because they remind me of books from my childhood. But you know how sometimes kids books can be a bit repetitive or long-winded in how they describe something, but it works and just feels like it accurately portrays the experience of being a kid, where everything is kind of a run on sentence? This is one of those stories. I feel like Vera B Williams is a master of capturing this rambly kid energy in a way that really works, and that manages to hold my 4 year olds attention really well. Even though a lot of this story is the classic kid's book thing of "went here, but it wasn't the right place; went there, but it wasn't the right place; went over yonder and it wasn't the right place either" it is done with a great job of capturing the subtleties of how the kid gets more and more frustrated and squirmy with her inability to decide and her mom knows it's coming before even she does.Looking forward to reading the others in the series. I always have a bit of an issue with Vera B Williams, writing about families/characters of colour as a white author. But I try to consider her as a product of her time, and in the 1980s this is pretty much where representation was at, and I feel like, similarly to Ezra Jack Keats, she does representation with love and respect. My 4 year old really enjoys this story and pays rapt attention throughout.

First sentence: Our new chair has cocoa on one arm now.Premise/plot: Rosa and her family have kept adding money to their jar. They were able to buy their chair--a chair for her mother (and grandmother). But now the jar is almost full again and Rosa's birthday is days away! The coins this time will go towards Rosa's birthday present. But HOW is a girl ever to choose what she MOST wants. She wants the present to not only be special--for herself--but bring some joy and happiness to the others in her family as well.My thoughts: I had NO IDEA that A Chair For My Mother had sequels. This is the first sequel. In this one, Rosa picks out a musical instrument--an accordion, I believe. I definitely enjoyed spending more time with this family. I could relate 100% to her indecisiveness.

This fun story is about a little girl and her relationship with her family. Her family puts money in a jar to buy something special or what each other may need. Its Rose's birthday so it's time for her to receive something special. She goes from store to store but at the last decided whatever she is getting isn't going to be special enough. Until she hears the sound of an accordion. Then she realized, that was the special object she wanted for her birthday. The next day she was very happy with the gift she chose. This book is more about Rose's family and some of their traditions and customs and less about her birthday gift.

I was excited to learn there exists a sequel (also a third book) to one of my favorite stories as a little kid. I remember my mom reading A Chair for My Mother to me when I was young. This one was nice.

This book is a great way to introduce or expand on the economic topics of consumer choice, opportunity cost, saving, and more! My 2nd grade groups enjoyed reading this as part of their economics lesson for the day, especially since we'd read Williams's book, A Chair For My Mother, for a previous lesson.

Teaches responsibility and decision making.