Something Happened in Our Town, livre ebook

A Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company Original World Premiere ProductionA NEW YORK TIMES and #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLERAmerican Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top 10 Most Challenged Books A Little Free Library Action Book Club SelectionNational Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)Emma and Josh heard that something happened in their town. A Black man was shot by the police. "Why did the police shoot that man?" "Can police go to jail?"Something Happened in Our Town follows two families one White, one Black as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers with guidelines for discussing race and racism with children, child-friendly definitions, and sample dialogues. Parents who want to raise children to accept individuals from diverse cultures need to counter negative attitudes that their children develop from exposure to the negative racial stereotypes that persist in our society.Order the companion books, Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence and Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation.