My Name Is Not Isabella", introduces girls to great role models. Our main character imagines herself as five different amazing women from history, yet in the end she embodies all their best characteristics and believes in herself.

Jennifer Fosberry writes an exciting story that will introduce children to the concept of biography. The story ultimately leads to how daughter's adore and emmulate their mothers above all. As exciting as the lives of these strong women are, Isabella knows its best to be just herself "the sweetest, kindest, smartest, bravest, fastest, toughest, greatest girl that ever was".

The book's vivid illustrations provide a small window into the imagination of our main character. Mike Litwin, an illustrator from North Carolina, is able to show a young girl's imagination in a funny and yet accurate manner. As Isabella dreams up of these different women, such as Sally Ride seen to the side, the book progresses to tell a very typical day made very extraordinary by simple imagination.

No matter where our main character Isabella goes, she transforms her surroundings into her imaginative world from the wild west with Annie Oakley, to the historic bus ride of Rosa Parks, or the operating room of the first American doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.