Kimeli is Maasai and he has been studying in New York to become a doctor. One day a young man named Kimeli returns to the village where he grew up. That it succeeds as magnificently as it does is a credit to each one of its three creators. It was as if people didn’t feel inclined or capable of coming up with something new. These books all came out within a few years of one another and then nothing. Best of these was Mordecai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, the tragedy was merely tangential to the real story. The women who could not deliver their roses, and so created an impromptu memorial in Jeannette Winter’s September Roses. That adorable little fireboat that helped put out the blazes in Maira Kalman’s almost too cute Fireboat. The general consensus was to write titles that focused on the human moments that surrounded the tragedy. Picture books in particular took a great deal of interest in making the events palatable to young impressionable minds. In this the children’s literary world and the adult literary world were very much alike. In collaboration with Wilson Kimeli NaiyomahĪs with any tragedy, in the years following the wake of September 11th a spate of books came out discussing, dissecting, and generally trying to make sense of what occurred.
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