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In National Public Radio’s Goats and Soda, Stories of Life in a Changing World, their recent 4-minute broadcast came with a downloadable comic book that you may wish to share with your child.  Entitled A Kids’ Guide to Coping With the Pandemic, this helpful booklet can enable parents to share feelings and events that may be scary to your child.  Created by social workers, the comic book can allow children to open up to their fears and frustrations about the current pandemic.

Be safe and healthy!

The New York Times has its 25 Best Children’s Books list for 2020.  Looking for a perfect holiday gift for a special child?  Why not consider sharing one of these titles?

Picture Books

• Scott’s I Talk Like a River
• Blackall’s If You Come to Earth
• Pinkney’s The Little Mermaid
• Tamaki’s Our Little Kitchen
• Underwood’s Outside In
• Berry’s The Story About Afiy
• Alzauner’s The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor
• Yoshitake’s There Must Be More Than That!
• Van den Ende’s The Wanderer
• Decur’s When You Look Up
• Robinson’s You Matter

Middle Schoolers

• Patterson & Alexander’s, Becoming Muhammad Ali
• Shulevitz’s, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
• Craft’s Class Act
• Pinkney’s Loretta Little Looks Back
• Munoz-Ryan’s Mañanaland
• Grossman’s The Silver Arrow
• Watson’s Ways to Make Sunshine
• Entrada-Kelly’s We Dream of Science
• Jamison & Mohmad’s When Stars Are Scattered

Young Adult

• Woodson’s Before the Ever After
• Luen-Yang’s Dragon Hoops
• Sayer’s Everything Sad is Untrue: A True Story
• Hudson & Hudson’s The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
• Hesse’s When They Left

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In so many ways, children are not adults, which includes how to provide the correct vaccine dosages for children.

This article, COVID-1 Vaccine for Children May Still Be Months Away  from National Public Radio describes how the vaccine will be delayed for children based upon the need for further research.

Keep safe this holiday season!

With the holidays fast approaching, you may be looking to purchase picture books that are both calming as well as beautiful.  The New York Times recommends several titles in its Life-Affirming Picture Books.  From Tomi Ungerer to Sophie Blackall, take a look at some new, remarkable children’s books.