How do you handle an issue such as sensitive as immigration and child-mother-separation issues in a picture book? Edwidge Danticat does so with her newest book for children. Titled Mama’s Nightingale, the book uses some gorgeous illustrations from Leslie Staub coupled with concise yet grade-level appropriate text from Danticat

Mama’s Nightingale will be followed by another book from Danticat this month—a young adult novel Untwine. Be sure to look out for it.

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