Dear Girl,

This book is for you.

Wonderful,

smart,

beautiful you.

If you ever need a reminder, just turn to any page in this book and know that you are special and you are loved.

AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL wrote more than thirty picture books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dear Girl, (cowritten with her daughter, Paris Rosenthal) and I Wish You More (co-written with Tom Lichtenheld). A con­tributor to NPR, TED collaborator and speaker, filmmaker, and the author of two groundbreaking memoirs (Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal ), she raised her three children with her husband Jason in Chicago. For more about Amy's life, work, and the Foundation formed in her memory, please see www.amykrouserosenthalfoundation.org.