Kids Bookreview iconKids BookreviewSep 10, 2026 ~1 min source read

Review: One Word

As the cover states, One Word is ' a girl's quest to learn her grandfather's hidden first language.' The most important word here is hidden. Melissa-Jane Fogarty has written and illustrated a moving story of Myra who is staying at her grandfathers house.

Review: One Word

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As the cover states, One Word is ' a girl's quest to learn her grandfather's hidden first language.' The most important word here is hidden.

Melissa-Jane Fogarty has written and illustrated a moving story of Myra who is staying at her grandfathers house.

One day she overhears her grandfather talking on the phone, in a language she has never heard before.

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As the cover states, One Word is ' a girl's quest to learn her grandfather's hidden first language.' The most important word here is hidden. Melissa-Jane Fogarty has written and illustrated a moving story of Myra who is staying at her grandfathers house. One day she overhears her grandfather talking on the phone, in a language she has never heard before.

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  • With one line Melissa articulates the connection that Myra has to this language.

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His language hasn't been lost of forgotten, it has been hidden. A place that is warm and welcoming and feels like home. Something that is not as straight forward as it seems.

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