One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing

by Nancy Lamb

Book Overview

This book speaks eloquently to millions of children who watched the Oklahoma City disaster on tevision and others who have suffered trauma of their own. Written in close collaboration with Oaklahoma... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068814666X
• ISBN13: 9780688146665
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.6" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Both realistic and reassuring--a real contribution.

This book is a genuine treasure for those trying to explain to children the painful events that can occur into today's world. That's because children's experiences and voices are honored within a caring adult context and structure. I found the children's remarks had a cumulative, powerful, and even healing effect, which reflected accurately their concerns and showed them trying to make sense of a tragic and frightening event. In the end the reader is left with not only the very real anger and loss, but with the incredible spirit of everyone--both within Oklahoma and outside of Oklahoma--who reached out in compassion to help a fellow human being. Ms. Lamb, an Oklahoma native, was in Oklahoma City when the Federal Building was bombed. Perhaps that gives her book its ring of authenticity. We owe her thanks for taking on such a difficult subject and writing about it in a realistic, but reassuring way. This one's a keeper.

Nice insight

I liked this book! The children's views are very telling. We always think of the children when we picture this horrible event, and those are the people we hear from in this book. Thank you, Nancy Lamb