The fear of the disease and the hatred among people has spread faster than the disease itself. It has revealed the best in people, but also the absolute worst.
Books for children have spread exponentially over the past 30 years, it seems like the world and his wife have attempted writing a book for children. It's a fiercely competitive market, in some respects it's more fierce than the adult novel writing. According to recent statistics there are more than 80,000 children's books published every single year. But with covid-19 only in the public consciousness in the past 4 months, there surely couldn't be any children's books about it already could there?
Simple answer is yes.
I decided to give myself an easy-ish week this week, which is why my blog has returned to it's normal Tuesday slot instead of being doled out on a Wednesday or Thursday. With my adult list of books to read piling up and other obligations and needs taking precedence I thought 'surely there must be something out there to help kids who are younger understand more about what's going on'.
A quick search on Love Reading For Kids helped me find it. Love Reading For Kids is an amazing site that has extracts from the latest children's books as well as previously established children's authors and well loved children's classics.
You can download these extracts to read and decide which book is best for your child, better yet, it allows them (through it's easy to navigate interface) to choose books for themselves. There are readers' reviews and suitable age recommendations: it is the go to place to search for children's literature.
Anyway, I found this book, 15 pages long, fully illustrated (by the legendary Axel Scheffler no less) and free to read (bonus).
It explains about what coronavirus is, why lockdown is in place, how to catch the virus and how to keep from catching it as best as possible. The writing is simple enough for young children to wrap their head around and the illustrations help to disarm any fears, to soothe and to reassure children.
I wish I'd come across it sooner as it was published in early April. No points for me for being a bit slow off the mark.
But in spite of the fact that almost everybody everywhere in the world probably knows about it, there still may be some merit in sharing it out anyway. After all, it is something free to read and helpful for children who might be struggling with the concept of lockdown and the reasons behind it.
Book 8 of my 52 book list and a book that can be read in a day.
The link is here in case you find it useful:
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