Picture Books About School Shooters: Needed or Needlessly Alarming Kids?

Authors who try explain tragedies like Uvalde and Sandy Hook to preschoolers face a risky task

Janice Harayda

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Cover of “I’m Not Scared …” / National Center for Youth Issues

It has come to this: picture books for 4-and 5-year-olds about school shootings.

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Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.