Why Can't Uncle Come Home? - Couverture rigide

Allison, Christiane Joy

 
9780998979144: Why Can't Uncle Come Home?

Synopsis

Timmy, and his little sister Kate, struggle to understand why Uncle can't come home despite all the hard things that are happening. Momma helps explain that it's not Uncle's choice to stay away. Uncle was wrongfully convicted, and sometimes people are punished for things they didn't really do. This story is designed to help address the hard questions of children who are struggling with the wrongful conviction of a loved one.

This book received 5 Honorable Mentions in the 2018 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards in the categories of Best Cover Design, Best Illustration, Family Matters, Picture Books 5 & Younger, and Picture Books 6 & Older. It is designed as the first in the Where is Uncle? series, helping children struggling with the adverse childhood experience (ACE) of incarceration.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christiane Joy Allison is a multi-award-winning author, public speaker, and activist. Her book, "Where is Uncle?," the first children's picture book for children experiencing the wrongful conviction of a loved one, won five Honorable Mentions in the 2018 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards. In 2018 she was also awarded a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award as well as a Lin Halterman Memorial Grant from the Alaska Writers Guild. She now serves as President of the Alaska Writers Guild President while writing and publishing her current dystopian cyberpunk novel series, The Infinitus Saga. The memorable characters include a disabled family inspired by her disability and life-long battle with chronic illness, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). Sometimes she walks with a cane, sometimes she rides in a wheelchair, and sometimes she needs neither. Her disability is as unpredictable as her life. Her husband was wrongfully convicted in 2015, launching her family into a decade-long struggle against injustice, and inspiring her award-winning series of children's picture books for kids impacted by the adverse childhood experience (ACE) of the incarceration of a loved one. As an activist, Christiane battles for criminal justice and prison reform and aspires to give prisoner families a voice.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780998979137: Why Can't Uncle Come Home?: A story for children struggling with the wrongful conviction of a loved one

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0998979139 ISBN 13 :  9780998979137
Editeur : Allison Publishing, 2018
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