This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Author Dave Eggers and The Matches’ Shawn Harris have teamed up for a new children’s book called What Can a Citizen Do? Pre-orders are now up. A group of children turn a lonely island into a community across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions. Coming this September, available to preorder now via Chroniclebooks. A dollar of every book preordered will be donated to @citizenuniversity, a national platform for fostering responsible and empowered citizenship! Expand - View Original
really stoked shawn has had a second wind as an illustrator for eggers' stuff. i've given his last book to some teacher friends for their classrooms
I teach third grade in a primarily African-American inner city. This is dope. It's incredible how positively kids respond when they see a kid who looks like them in the pages of a book. The message would resonate with them as well, for sure.
I've never actually given any of Eggers books the time of day but I'm sure I'm missing out on something. Can anyone recommend a good starting point?