5 "heartbreaking, important, poignant" stars !!!

Of all the books I read this year....this is the most important....a children's book you say...yes a children's book full of pain, love and beauty.

This is a collaboration by children's advocates that visited a detention centre in Clint Texas and worked and spoke with the children there that ranged from age 4 to 17 from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and other southern countries. They have already faced many hardships and are now trying to reunite with family throughout the United States. They can be held for weeks in overcrowded unsanitary conditions with little access to food and medical care. They try and care for each other but they are frightened and often traumatized and really require parental care and love.

Why does this go on in a civilized country ? O that's right for the same reasons many of our Canadian Indigenous don't have access to clean drinking water ? Or our trans children are murdered ? Or our elderly die like flies in nursing homes due to Covid ?

This is a book with beautiful artwork by Latino artists with quotes from the children around their experiences, their hopes, their hardships and their dreams. This is a book that will make you ball your eyes out if you have any decency.

The book educates children and also gives very helpful information to elicit social change and how they and their families can help. The book is done twice...once in English and once in Spanish.

A portion of the purchase price of each book goes to Project Amplify which provides legal support to children in migration.

Thank you to Netgalley, the children, artists and advocates as well as Workman Publishing Group for an e-copy in exchange for my honest review. This book is to be released in April 2021.