Read to Respond: Creating Change Through Literature - Channel Kindness

Read to Respond: Creating Change Through Literature - Channel Kindness

Fists clenched, I pounded and cried on the supermarket floor for another bag of chips. Again. Unfortunately for my parents, I spent much of toddlerhood like this. The only antidote? Books. With books-in-hand, I was engaged in worlds where prison escapes were run-of-the-mill and saving the world from fairies was business as usual. Growing older, I shifted from the imaginative worlds of The Land of Stories to those that dealt with heavier topics, …