Misery Lark

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out

traveling around the world and transforming the way people thought about history

toddler and preschooler's physical and psychological development

but a revolution—and decide how she

Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Lilliam Rivera Misery LarkA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police arent in charge of public safety and community well being. Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder