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Helping Our World Get Well: COVID Vaccines

Helping Our World Get Well: COVID Vaccines

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Helping Our World Get Well: COVID Vaccines

Author(s)

Beth Bacon

Publisher

Blair

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Release Date

November 16, 2021

ISBN

978-1949467741

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Kids can do their part to help heal the world and stop the pandemic by getting a COVID vaccine.

After months of wearing masks, washing hands, and social distancing, kids have another way to help during the COVID-19 pandemic: they need to get a vaccine. With one little prick, kids can get protection from the virus and, in turn, help protect their family, their friends, and their community. In straightforward language, this book explains to kids how vaccines will help us rid the world of COVID-19 and how they have a role to play in that mission.

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Experiential Explanation for Kids

March 19, 2022

Overall rating

4.0

Writing Style

4.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

4.0

Learning Value

4.0

This picture book tells the story of one little girl's experiences during the pandemic. She touches briefly on issues of remote learning, masking, outdoor activities, and social distancing, but concentrates on the vaccine. She is afraid that the vaccine will hurt and is reluctant to get it, but when she talks to a friend who is not able to get the vaccine "because of the way his body works", she realizes that getting the vaccine will help to protect other people at her school, and help to stop the pandemic. She goes to get the vaccine, and it doesn't hurt. It was, in fact, the tiniest thing about the pandemic so far. The is a page of facts about vaccines and information about what we can all do while we are waiting for the pandemic to be over in order to stay safe.

Good Points

The story is clearly pro-vaccine, but is told in a measured way to allay a young child's fears. The main character points out the good points that other relatives and friends who have been vaccinated made about not worrying as much about being out in public. The message about vaccines helping to keep everyone safe is the one that allowed for mass vaccinations of school children in the 1950s to prevent polio and that lead to the world wide erradication of smallpox, so has its merits.

The illustrations are softly colored, adn the characters show a variety of skin tones and ethnicities, although no cultural backgrounds are explicitly stated. There's not a lot of heavy dury scientific explanation, since this is aimed at younger children, but there is just enough information to support the idea of getting a vaccine. We're seeing a growing number of books like Brown's Shot in the Arm that explain the history, and even books for older readers like Yang's New From Here and Ibura's When the World Turned Upside Down that deal with the pandemic. This is a simple but helpful book that could be used to explain vaccines to children who are scheduled to get one and are feeling anxious about it.