Our children need to talk and learn about scary stuff going on in our world today, even if the conversation is difficult for adults, whether it’s the death of a child or the Earth without humans.
That’s the message from award-winning Minnesota writers Kao Kalia Yang and John Coy, who will talk about their new picture books in a virtual conversation this week.
Yang, one of the country’s first published Hmong-American writers, honors a Hmong family who lost a child in “The Shared Room.” Coy celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in “If We Were Gone: Imagining the World Without People,” a story of good things that will happen to the Earth if humans no longer inhabit it.
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