Bigger Than Me Social Themes - Death A Junior Library Guild Gold

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom the introduction by KADIR NELSON

Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance

from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride

her Nobel lecture on the power of language

Bigger Than Me Social Themes - Death A Junior Library Guild GoldChildren discover the impact they can have when they band together in this picture book ode to how solidarity lifts everyone up. Siblings Luna and Zion are feeling a bit overwhelmed. Big words keep rushing at them: Homelessness. Pandemic. Inequality. Recession. Unemployment. They dont understand the words, but grown ups do, and the siblings can see how upset the words make them. Wanting to understand the words themselves, Luna and Zion spell them out