Tsunami: Helping Each Other

by Ann Morris

Discusses the family experience during the Christmas Tsunami of 2004 and the chaos immediately following, focusing on what life was like immediately after the disaster--coping with loss; the availability of food, shelter, and clothing; post-flood disease control; and the children’s attempt at re-entry into elementary school life.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2005

Reviews

[sarafem · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't get it until right this very moment (either because I am slow or because if the book had one fault, it is that it didn't bring this idea all the way home), but the book's title implies that Helping Each Other built up like a great big ol' tsunami from one abrupt destructive event. Kind of a cool concept. I was going to give this book five stars until I realized how much cooler it would be if they had expanded on that idea. Perhaps I should write that book. But that would require effort. So maybe not.

Oh, and in case you didn't get it, this book is about the tsunami post-Christmas 2004. It was very touching, about one family in particular but also about how the rest of the world pitched in to take care of these people and this destroyed land. Go read it.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helped to put a face to a horrendous natural disaster that many of us, and possibly our students, remember. The book hit close to home for the publisher, as well, since he lost two friends and colleagues to the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. The book follows the lives of Chaipreak and his younger brother Chaiya who survived the tsunami by climbing trees and hanging on. The photographs speak for themselves in terms of the devastation and hopelessness surrounding the area but the text clearly explains what is happening in each picture.

Would be a great read aloud of independent read for 2-4 grades.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

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