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Reviewed by Katelyn Hensel for Readers' Favorite
Terri Kelley has a gift for creating children's books that are both realistic and fun at the same time. In Today, I'll Be Good, kids learn to tackle minor behavioral issues without realizing that they are learning at all. School-aged kids who are heading off for their first time at pre-school or kindergarten may be confused and bewildered by the rules that they have to follow at school, which they didn't have to follow at home. Terri leads the way for them, and depicts what will happen if they decide not to listen to their teachers, and consequences at home when you misbehave at school.
One thing I love about Terri's stories is that she portrays diverse families very well. In this particular story, the main character only has a dad. We don't know if he's a single dad, a stay-at-home dad, or one of a same-sex couple pairing, but I enjoyed that Terri is making it more accepted and "normal" to have one parent take care of a child. Very cool in my book!
The illustrator, Mardee Santos, is much more realistic with her artwork than what I see in a lot of children's books. While I thought that the kids in the story were a little old for the topic (they look about 5th grade, and this book is obviously for children about the age of 5 or 6), she used colored pencils in her drawings to great effect. The characters' expressions are really vivid and detailed, and you can tell what is going on in the story even without the words. That quality of being able to interpret the story from drawings is what marks a very good illustrator, so Mardee is one of those elite few.