LS 521 Blog #6

A while ago I happened to be home for lunch and I watched an episode of Reading Rainbow that featured a group of school children whose school was near the World Trade Center in NYC. They wrote and recorded a thank you song to all of those that helped after 9/11 and to all of the people that sent them letters, cards, gifts etc...

The awesome thing truly is that this was entirely the kids idea.

I attempted to search and find the name of the song or the school with no luck at the Reading Rainbow website.

Just recently I read two children's books dealing with the WTC and 9/11. The first was Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman and the second was The Man that Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein.

































I also recently read two children's books about Hurricane Katrina with one of them being very graphic. So my thought was this -- how do books like these impact children. My second thought was how soon is too soon for children's books about disasters? I know it is very important to help children deal with their emotions after tragic events - but who determines when the masses are ready for books, movies or television shows about events that when they occurred were truly life altering?