Where is Palestine in children’s literature and why should we care?
Thursday, June 27, 2024
First published in Medium
As a social justice activist and writer on the topic of Israel/Palestine, I became interested in the lack of Palestinian lives and narratives in children’s literature in 2016 when a Quaker teacher suggested I write a book on Palestine for kids. This issue is even more critical now as students, their teachers and parents, struggle to understand, frame, and respond to Hamas’ October attack and Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza….