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Apr 09, 2020darladoodles rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a story in verse with multiple viewpoints contributing to the conversation. It will be well worth revisiting in audio and could win some awards if the end product is as good as this title deserves. The cover is specatular, btw. In just a few weeks we will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of this polarizing event. I was in preschool when it occurred and I can remember hearing the song "Ohio" by CSNY on the radio: "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio" In her author notes, Deborah Wiles quotes Jeffrey Andrew Barash from his book "Collective Memory and the Historical Past":". . .we honor great tragedies by never forgetting, that our social cohesion as a human society depends on our storytelling. It depends on our remembering, passing on what we remember, saving it, and honoring it." Thank you to Deborah Wiles for bringing this story to our attention and sharing it with a new generation. I am honored to have gotten an early look at this new release.