Book Description
for Somewhere Today by Shelley Moore Thomas and Eric Futran
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
An uncomplicated text about a complicated subject contains only 11 short sentences. Ten of them begin with the words, Somewhere today someone is.... These ten sentences define ten distinct peace-making actions, such as ...being a friend, instead of fighting...planting a tree where one was cut down...learning to do things a different way. The words on the final page are Maybe it is you. An assemblage of uncaptioned photographs reproduced in full color illustrates each of these actions, inviting readers to figure out or find out more about each example. The children and adults pictured suggest glimpses of racial, cultural, age and gender diversity. The author's selection of seemingly ordinary actions and her understanding of how young children might begin to think about the idea of peace are no doubt informed by her role as a teacher of first and secongraders. (Ages 3-7)
CCBC Choices 1998. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998. Used with permission.