Review of the Day: niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile by María José Ferrada, ill. María Elena Valdez

niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile
By María José Ferrada
Illustrated by María Elena Valdez
Translated by Lawrence Schimel
$18.99
ISBN: 978-0-8028-5567-1
Ages 9-12
On shelves March 23rd

It used to be that historical horrors were routinely hidden from children. They might get the rough general outlines of the past, but children’s books weren’t being used as teaching tools in that particular way. There would be the odd novel that alluded to the Holocaust, but that was the exception. And then...