Picturing the Crisis in Haiti

Author Edwidge Danticat on her first picture book

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Author Edwidge Danticat recently spoke to Scholastic Kid Reporter Albert Ordonez in her home in Miami, Florida, about her first picture book, Eight Days: A Story of Haiti. The book tells the story of how a young boy trapped in the rubble of the 2010 earthquake managed to survive by using his imagination.

Click play below to watch this former resident of Port-au-Prince discuss how she felt when she heard about the destruction.

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