Freedom and Glory: An Interview with The Story of Ukraine creators Olena Kharchenko, Michael Sampson and Polina Doroshenko

In March of this year I visited the Bologna Book Fair, an international rights fair of children’s literature. Not long before my arrival, Russia had invaded the Ukraine and I was floored by the number of supportive signs, booths, and remembrances the Fair had made in support of the Ukraine. In the intervening half a year since, Ukraine still finds itself at war. In such times, we often turn to children’s books, in the hopes that they teach our children, but honestly we want to be taught too....