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A Minneapolis Children amp rsquo s Theatre Company Original World Premiere ProductionA NEW YORK TIMES and  INDIEBOUND BEST SELLERAmerican Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top Most Challenged Books A Little Free Library Action Book Club SelectionNational Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)Emma and Josh heard that something happened in their town. A Black man was shot by the police.amp quot Why did the police shoot that man? amp quot amp quot Can police go to jail? amp quot Something Happened in Our Town follows two families - one White, one Black - as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers with guidelines for discussing race and racism with children, child-friendly definitions, and sample dialogues. Free, downloadable educator materials (including discussion questions) are available at www.apa.org.From the Note to Parents and Caregivers:There are many benefits of beginning to discuss racial bias and injustice with young children of all races and ethnicities:Research has shown that children even as young as three years of age notice and comment on differences in skin color.Humans of all ages tend to ascribe positive qualities to the group that they belong to and negative qualities to other groups.Despite some parents amp rsquo attempts to protect their children from frightening media content, children often become aware of incidents of community violence, including police shootings.Parents who don amp rsquo t proactively talk about racial issues with their children are inadvertently teaching their children that race is a taboo topic. Parents who want to raise children to accept individuals from diverse cultures need to counter negative attitudes that their children develop from exposure to the negative racial stereotypes that persist in our society.Order the companion books, Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence and Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation.

In this realistic and empowering tale, Carmen learns that through community and love, she can find strength in herself and maintain her connection with her Papi, who has been detained because of his immigration status. Also available in a Spanish edition, Algo Le Pas amp oacute A Mi Pap amp aacute : Una Historia Sobre Inmigraci amp oacute n y la Separaci amp oacute n Familiar ISBN 978 4338395 4.Carmen loves doing magic with her Papi. He can make sarapes fly. He can make rabbits vanish! But one day, her Papi vanishes. She is sad and scared when she learns he has been detained because he is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. At first, Carmen amp rsquo s family keeps Papi amp rsquo s detention a secret, fearing that they might be judged negatively. As Carmen's community becomes aware of their situation, they rally around her family with love. Carmen learns she can find strength in herself and maintain her connection with Papi, no matter what happens.​The Something Happened books present and explain sensitive and important events happening in communities across the United States and around the world. Told in clear, compelling stories, the books come with the authority of psychological expertise from the American Psychological Association. They include Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story of Racial Injustice, which is a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller, and one of ALA's most banned books  Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, which was nominated for The Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice and Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation.  2 23 CBC and NCSS Notable Social Studies List

Also available in an English edition, Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation.A Carmen le encanta hacer trucos de magia con su Papi. amp Eacute l puede hacer volar los sarapes. amp iexcl amp Eacute l puede hacer desaparecer los conejos! Pero un d amp iacute a, su Papi desaparece. Ella se siente triste y asustada cuando se entera que amp eacute l ha sido detenido porque es un inmigrante indocumentado de M amp eacute xico. Inicialmente, la familia de Carmen mantiene en secreto la detenci amp oacute n de Papi, por miedo a ser juzgados negativamente. A medida que los dem amp aacute s se dan cuenta de la situaci amp oacute n, la comunidad de Carmen se une en apoyo a su familia. Carmen aprende que, a trav amp eacute s de la comunidad y el amor, puede encontrar fuerza dentro de s amp iacute misma y mantener su conexi amp oacute n con Papi no importa lo que pase.