Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2024
Journal / Book Title
Thinking in Stories: Reviewing Philosophy in Children's Literature
Abstract
In Blackout a hot urban night takes an interesting turn when the power goes out and an urban family -- each busy with something that requires electricity -- discover new things about themselves and their community. Blizzard is based on the author’s childhood experience seeing his neighborhood transformed into an alien landscape by a superstorm and finding ways to get around in it when adults cannot. The book invites readers to re-see “normal” lives and to reconsider what is possible. Hurricane pictures the devastation of today's powerful storms. The hurricane wrecks things and drives people from their homes. The boy in the story finds his beloved dock broken up, where he used to swim and fish. The story centers on cooperation and neighborhood resilience: people can get through disasters if they work together.
Book Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Shea, Peter, "(2024) Blackout (2011), Blizzard (2014), and Hurricane (2021) by John Roccoby John Roccoby John Rocco" (2024). Collected Papers of Peter Shea. 14.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_pshea/14