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There is a particular kind of ambition in children’s literature that announces itself quietly. It does not arrive with gimmick or sermon, but with the confidence that young readers can bear complexity if it is offered with clarity and grace….
In “The Crossing,” Diana L. Malkin treats chronic illness not as a lesson plan, but as part of a full and complicated life.
Many books for children about illness are written with worthy intentions and deadened prose…..
“The Crossing” offers young readers a humane, emotionally intelligent story about movement, uncertainty, and the search for home.
Children’s literature has always had a border problem. It likes journeys, departures, thresholds, and strange lands, but it often prefers them in mythic form…
