The article discusses the appeal of Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series, which features child protagonists navigating significant historical disasters. The author reflects on the impact of recent events, including Hurricane Helene and its devastation in North Carolina and Tennessee, prompting a child's curiosity about future installments in the series. It raises questions about the relevance of retelling history, especially when faced with contemporary calamities that resonate deeply with people living through them, underscoring the importance of storytelling in understanding tragedy and resilience.
My middle kid, a fifth grader, is big into Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series. It's historical fiction writ small, where kid characters-about the age of the series's average readers-find themselves smack in the midst of some of the worst real events humanity has ever faced.
But, as the breadth of devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in particular, became more apparent to the rest of the country, my child asked, 'Do you think Lauren Tarshis will write an I Survived... about Hurricane Helene now?'
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