Marcie Colleen
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Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
San Diego, California, USA - Biografía breve
- [from author's website]
In previous chapters I've been a teacher, an actress, and a nanny, but now I spend my days writing children's books! I enjoy reading, playing my ukulele, running, watching baseball, and eating ice cream--not all at the same time! But I'm not known to turn down a challenge. Although I will always be a Brooklynite at heart, I now live with my husband and our mischievous sock monkey in San Diego, California.
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- Obras
- 15
- Miembros
- 518
- Popularidad
- #47,945
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 48
- Idiomas
- 1
Survivor Tree is an immensely poignant and powerful book, and I found myself close to tears on more than one occasion, while reading it. The text is minimal but emotionally resonant, and the artwork beautiful. The book was published in August of 2021, shortly before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and is one of several which addresses the subject of the Callery pear survivor tree. These other titles include Branches of Hope: The 9/11 Survivor Tree by author Ann Magee and illustrator Nicole Wong, This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by author/illustrator Sean Rubin (both published in 2021), as well as the 2020 Miracle of Little Tree: The 9/11 Survivor Tree's Incredible Story, by Linda S. Foster. Of course, anniversaries and significant dates do tend to produce a rush of books on the same topic, in the children's book world, so that is not surprising. That said, I think this specific subject is particularly fitting for a children's book, as it offers a fairly gentle and hopeful entree to a difficult and dark subject, one which emphasizes resilience and healing, rather than focusing on atrocity. As it happens, the subject of a tree's survival of human conflict can also be found in such titles as Gaye Sanders and Pamela Behrend's The Survivor Tree, which tells the story of an elm tree which survived the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995, as well as Sandra Moore and Kazumi Wilds' The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: The Little Bonsai with a Big Story.
In any case, this was a beautiful and heartbreaking book, one I would recommend to picture book readers looking for 9/11 stories that emphasize survival, resilience, healing and hope.… (más)