Arina Speaks! is a 750-word picture book that features, as its heroine, a little girl with a big personality. The book is an exercise in critical reading for children, as it presents real conversations between Arina and her parents and asks children to describe Arina based on the conversation. The book is also a lesson in adjectives, since at the end, the reader learns that Arina is "CONFIDENT, HELPFUL, BOSSY, CLEVER, RIGHT (sometimes), PLUCKY, QUIRKY,...