Remembering 911

As we approach the second anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks and the loss of lives in New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania, I have been reading and rereading some of the children's literature published in the aftermath. I continue to find comfort in "This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort." The poems in the book, each of which is illustrated by a well-known illustrator, were selected by author and teacher Georgia Heard. She began gathering poems right after September 11 at the request of the superintendent of district 2 in Manhatten. The superintendent wanted Heard to find "poems of comfort" that could be read to the New York City schoolchildren who had experienced the tragedy.

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