Author SF Said on how almost all the world’s problems come down to “us and them” – and how children’s books can knock down the barriers
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Let us set this upside-down world right again by starting with the children. They will show the grown-ups the way to go.
Those were the words of Jella Lepman, a German-Jewish writer who fled Germany in the 1930s and returned after the second world war as the US Army’s advisor on youth issues. She found starving children who desperately needed food, medicine, clothes and shelter.
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