Eve Bunting’s Picture Book, “A Day’s Work,” Has Lessons for Young Readers on Both Labor Day, 2022 and Every Day of Their Lives.

A Day’s Work By Eve Bunting; illustrated by Ronald Himler   Maybe you’ve seen workers standing in the early morning hours. They gather huddled in groups drinking coffee, trying to get warm in winter or stay cool in the heat. But no matter the weather, they are waiting  and hopeful for work. At a certain…

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Teach Our Children the Importance of Our Freedoms

The Wall By Eve Bunting; illustrated by Ronald Himler As parents, we sometimes have a tendency to want to shield our children from anything disquieting, complicated or downright sad. And that is a very human reaction to have; this protective instinct we have as to what filters through to our children’s psyche. We want to…

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