September 2021
— Through a fogged window, a child observes city life: a girl with her dog, a street musician, an old couple, and a flower growing through concrete cracks.
— A kindergartener watches classmates play piano until her mother finally asks if she wants to learn, leading to the arrival of her own piano.
— Thirteen playful poems explore opposites, paradoxes, wordplay, and environmental concerns through a child's inventive lens, ending with a critique of materialism versus nature.
— A refugee teen's defiant catalog of what takes courage — building schools, welcoming the homeless, staying human — versus what's easy: destroying, hurting, closing your eyes.
— The children are originally from a range of different countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi; at the time of submission, they were...