Can children's books help build a better world?

Author SF Said on how almost all the world’s problems come down to ‘us and them’ – and how children’s books can knock down the barriers Do you believe it’s the books we read when we are young that have the deepest impact? Let us know by emailing [email protected] or on Twitter @GdnChildrensBks and we’ll add your comments to this blogLet us set this upside-down world right again by starting with the children. They will show the grown-ups the way to go. Those were the words of Jella Lepman, a German-Jewish writer who fled Germany in the 1930s and returned after the second world war as the US Army’s advisor on youth issues. She found starving children who desperately needed food, medicine, clothes and shelter. Related: Pippi Longstocking: a feminist, an optimist and a free thinker Related: Why fiction can help us understand the Syrian refugee crisis Related: Which brilliant books have never been translated into English? Join the discussion Related: Books to breed tolerance: what children can read after the terrorist attacks in Paris Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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