The Breaking News
- Subject
- Family - General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Size
- 26.2 cm × 20.8 cm
- ISBN
- 9781250153562
Sometimes the news can be too much. This reassuring picture book helps young children understand difficult news events, process big feelings, and find comfort in community, kindness, and hope—empowering families to have gentle, honest conversations about the world around them.
A “timely text” with “emotions...sensitively portrayed throughout... Affirming the resilience that can result when small acts are focused on community.” - The New York Times
"Appropriate for many situations children face in today’s never-ending news cycle. An absolute-must for...libraries." - School Library Journal
When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted.
At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers—the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants more than anything to help in a BIG way, but maybe she can start with one small act of kindness instead . . . and then another, and another.Small things can compound, after all, to make a world of difference.
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Picture Books of 2018
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What reviewers said
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Picture Books of 2018 selection
"Featuring a multi-ethnic neighborhood of individuals connected—for better or worse—through their shared disquiet, this is a wise and timely book."
A “timely text” with “emotions...sensitively portrayed throughout... Affirming the resilience that can result when small acts are focused on community.”
"This take on post-tragedy response delicately blends respect for sadness and the magnitude of tragedy with an actionable focus on the value of “one small thing” as a response."
"The ambiguous nature of the circumstances makes [The Breaking News] appropriate for many situations children face in today’s never-ending news cycle. An absolute-must for...libraries."
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