Description: First published by Alboroto ediciones, Mexico, 2019.
Brief description:
Lawrence Schimel has written or translated over 300 books, including The Adventures of Odysseus, 9 Kilometers, and the Batchelder Honor Book Different. He is also the translator of Nicolás Schuff and Ana Sender's How to Reach the Moon and of Mariana Ruiz Johnson's The Book that Kibo Wrote. Lawrence's works have received many awards, including three PEN Translates Awards, two SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards, and two Américas Award Honors. Lawrence lives in Madrid, Spain. Follow him on Bluesky @lawrenceschimel.bksy.social.
Review Quotes:
"A book to be read and remembered: a tribute to children whose lives were lost to forces not of their own creation."
-- Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)
"This is poetry as remembrance as well as healing. It is also very much one of a kind... These poems are here so that we do not forget. These poems are here so that we always remember."
-- Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production (a School Library Journal blog)
"The poems are rich with the sensory details of ordinary life...the visual images are as tender and imaginative as the verse."
-- Horn Book
"A heartfelt volume emphasizing innocence in the face of continuing political violence, this #OwnVoices work is a must-purchase for poetry collections serving young patrons."
-- School Library Journal
"Dedicated to 'the memory that helps us defeat monsters, ' the childhoods that Ferrada imagines for these young victims of violence--childhoods in which nothing bad happens, and there's enough time for each to do whatever they like--feel both poignant and haunting."
-- Publishers Weekly