Grandmother writes book to help children cope with COVID-19
Author says children can use book like a journal
Author says children can use book like a journal
Author says children can use book like a journal
Coronavirus discussions with small kids can be very difficult. That's why one grandmother sat down and wrote a children's book to help explain it to them.
The book, "Grandma Tells Why," is about why things happen.
"It's a why book. Why can’t I go to school? Why can’t I go to soccer practice? And the grandma tries to tell why," author Gail Kingsbury said.
Kingsbury wrote the book for her great-grandson. Her niece illustrated it. Then, something special happened.
"Someone there picked it to be a flag," Kingsbury said.
The Rockefeller Foundation took a page from the book and made it into a flag, which is currently flying outside Rockefeller Center in New York.
"That was a surprise," Kingsbury said.
The book is a touching conversation, one that Kingsbury said she hopes kids will write in and hold on to.
"Children can record and remember what is happening," she said. "Years from now this will be a journal."
She said she hopes it will be a reminder for the next generation about the year 2020 and how we lived through it.
"It will tell them exactly how they felt," Kingsbury said.
She said she hopes her book inspires kids to start writing, and not to be scared of the future after the virus.
The book is for sale at .
