These two books help children and parents understand, as Yang writes, “the world is bigger than anything I had imagined.” Those memories were and are “a melt in the freeze of their hearts.” The book ends with the family moving while retaining memories of their departed daughter. Yes - after tears and confirmation that she would not return - he moved in. Then the parents asked their oldest child, who was sharing a room with his younger brother, if he wanted to make a change: Would he like to move into the bedroom of the daughter who had died? An emotional question and a heart-rending decision. As Yang writes, “Sometimes the quiet got too loud, and the mother and the father played videos of the girl singing on their phones.” Paul whose 6-year-old child drowned.įor months, the family, which I know, grieved. “The Shared Room” tells the true story of a family in St. In this case, it’s the death of a sister.
Yang published another very good children’s book last year, “The Shared Room.” With assistance from illustrator Xee Reiter, this book also helps children understand things most haven’t experienced. This is one of the five best children’s books I’ve ever read. Sometimes the gifts others have to share are not things we can see they are stories we can carry forever.” I see ‘From the Tops of the Trees’ as a powerful story about how the adults in our lives can feed our dreams - even in the midst of tremendously challenging circumstances - but also as a reminder that even in the lives of refugee children, there is beauty, wisdom, and love to offer the world. She responded, in part: “We need ways of understanding and articulating the different stories of how people come from different places in search of a home. I asked Yang, whom I’ve known and admired for years, what she wants people to understand about this book.
… One day my little girl will journey far into the world, to the places her father has never been.” When her father reached the top of that tree, he explained: “Look, the world is bigger than this place. On another, it’s the story of how one father helps his daughter recognize more of the world. On one level, it’s a story of children living difficult lives in a refugee camp. In her new children’s book, “From the Tops of the Trees,” Yang helps youngsters see and understand beyond where they are living – wherever that is.īeautifully illustrated by Rachel Wada, “Trees” is gentle, personal and understated.
His goal was to help her, at age 4, to see there was much more to the world than the refugee camp in which they were living. Multiple-award-winning Minnesota author and parent Kao Kalia Yang remembers the day, more than 35 years ago, when her father climbed with her on his back to the top of a very tall tree in Thailand. Kao Kalia Yang helps us see from a very tall tree The column below originally appeared in several APG of East Central Minnesota newspapers, including the Star News, serving the Elk River, Mn newspapers
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