helping kids deal with natural disasters

This is a special Perfect Picture Book Friday. Quoting from Susanna Leonard Hill’s PPBF post last week, since “Friday, December 14 is the anniversary of the date in 1954 that the UN General Assembly recommended there should be a Universal Children’s Day, we are going to be doing our part to raise awareness of the plight of children around the globe and to promote the welfare of children in the world by posting books which focus on multicultural/multiracial issues, human rights, and/or children who have helped to change the world in some way.” The book I have chosen features children of many cultures, and is about an emotion that is necessary for us all, especially in the face of natural and humanly-created disasters such as children face the world over. This is perhaps coming at the subject of the day in a rather indirect way, but I hope it can still be seen as appropriate.   Title: Hope is an Open Heart Author: Lauren Thompson Illustrator: Photographs from a variety of sources Publisher: New York: Scholastic, 2008