That school opened their arms to me and said, “Come and be with us.” They were very much like I was: traumatized by the 9/11 experience. They are our citizenry they are going to be charged with keeping our nation safe in the future.Īfterwards, I found out about a school in Brooklyn, right across the river they saw everything happen on 9/11. But then I thought to myself that children really deserve a safe space in which to talk about these events. Why don’t you write a book?” And I said no. My editor at the time, Liza Baker, said, “There are so many children who know nothing about 9/11. Writing about 9/11 was not my idea at all. What prompted you to write a book about 9/11 for children? PW spoke with Rhodes about the healing power of storytelling and what she wants children to take away from reading the book. The middle grade novel has resonated with readers, selling, per the publisher, 170,000 copies in all formats to date. In Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown), set 15 years after 9/11, 10-year-old Dèja learns about the terrorist attack in school, not realizing its catastrophic impact on her own family.
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