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My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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This "heartbreaking ... powerful work" ( School Library Journal)
introduces the contemporary issue of forced disappearances to
readers 10 and up-with "deceptively simple black line drawings"
that "allow for no meandering of attention" ( Kirkus). By a closed
door, a child waits for his uncle, who is coming to stay. As he
waits, he imagines all the fun things they'll do when he arrives:
his uncle can teach him how to block a penalty shot and the boy can
show him how well he is doing in school. But his uncle never
arrives. Page by page, the boy grows older sitting in the same
position, waiting to show his uncle his degree, his son, and
eventually, his granddaughter. And still, his uncle does not come.
My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow is dedicated to the forcibly
disappeared who were never able to come home, and depicts the
devastating impact on their loved ones who are left behind. An
excellent resource for learning about the history of forced
disappearances, this gentle but effective book includes an
afterword that explains the act of "disappearing people": how it
developed over the course of the twentieth century as a tool of
political terror, and how people continue to be disappeared today.
An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids
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