Our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles reports that, stuck at home with her family, she's turned to the I am series, by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos, for stories about relatable heroes.
Evidently, for modern kids, a woman flying across the ocean was not enough to elicit more than"oh, that's cool." So Meltzer dug deeper, determined to find the hook. It turns out that what excited his daughter about Amelia Earhart wasn't the airplane she flew over the ocean as an adult, but rather the roller coaster she built in her backyard as a child .
Another very important decision for me, worried about the accuracy of those books I read as a child, was that if one of Meltzer and Eliopoulos' heroes were imperfect , they wouldn't hide it. Meltzer says they wanted every kid to know that imperfect — not just ordinary, but imperfect — people can do extraordinary things.
I hope that in this difficult time we can all find comfort in the ordinary people of extraordinary character who are doing so much to help.
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