Chrysanthemum loves her long, beautiful name – until she starts kindergarten and the other children tease her about it.  Chrysanthemum starts feeling badly about herself and doesn’t want to go to school anymore.  This book by Kevin Henkes reminds us that our words are powerful and can hurt others if we’re not careful. 

Chrysanthemum has 13 letters in her name.  We made a graph of the number of letters in each of our names.  We know that most people have 4 letters in their name and one person has 7.