Not my idea :
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TextSeries: Ordinary terrible thingsPublication details: New York : Dottir Press, 2018Description: 64 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781948340007 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Race relations -- Juvenile fiction | Racism -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Fiction 7+. | General.DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: 'Not My Idea', the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness. A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person whose hands were up. Upset, he asks his mother why; she deflects, assuring him that he is safe. Later, they visit an aunt and uncle, where the TV, always on, shows a rally in response to the police shooting. The child glimpses a moving press conference with the victim's family while his aunt claims she simply 'can't watch the news'. The book's narrator accompanies the child as he faces history and himself. The activities section urges kids to grow justice ('like a bean sprout in a milk carton') inside of themselves, seek out and listen to the truth about racism and white supremacy, and prepare to be changed, heartbroken, and liberated by this experience.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Books | Main Library Picture Books (E) | E .H635 2018 | Available | 31112 | |||
| Books | Preschool / KiTa KG&PS Library - Curriculum Library | KG&PS | Available | DSI | 50831 |
'Not My Idea', the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness. A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person whose hands were up. Upset, he asks his mother why; she deflects, assuring him that he is safe. Later, they visit an aunt and uncle, where the TV, always on, shows a rally in response to the police shooting. The child glimpses a moving press conference with the victim's family while his aunt claims she simply 'can't watch the news'. The book's narrator accompanies the child as he faces history and himself. The activities section urges kids to grow justice ('like a bean sprout in a milk carton') inside of themselves, seek out and listen to the truth about racism and white supremacy, and prepare to be changed, heartbroken, and liberated by this experience.