Selfishness creeps in
When you read children’s literature you expect to smile at the quirky characters fumbling to figure out their growing independence. You might expect to cry as you watch characters face the pain of growing up.
You don’t expect to be confronted by current events like a refugee crisis—and inspired to imagine the kind of society we could be even in the face of terror and fear.
That’s what happened to me last week as I read several novels by Lois Lowry in preparation for her visit to the city where I live. Lowry, a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal and author of The Giver, spoke in Pittsburgh on Sunday and at my son’s elementary school the next morning. I wanted to be ready.
