The ABA is hosting the Children’s Institute in Portland this year and I’m thrilled to be hosting a group of children’s booksellers at Annie Blooms bookstore in Multnomah Village.
Hosting Children’s Booksellers at Annie Blooms
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The ABA is hosting the Children’s Institute in Portland this year and I’m thrilled to be hosting a group of children’s booksellers at Annie Blooms bookstore in Multnomah Village.
I have little to add to what has been said so eloquently about the brutal events of the last week in Charleston. Only a small suggestion that if it is your lot to guide young children through this moment, if you are struggling for something uplifting to say to the children in your life, you might consider this short and graceful picture book as a starting point. It’s called Love Will See You Through and it’s written by the neice of Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Williams. She shares what she’s learned from her uncle: have courage, attack the problem, not the person, trust in the power and endurance of love. It’s a place to start and one in concert with the values of the parishioners of Mother Emanuel AME.