Social Justice in Pictures

From Aimee

We read a picture book for school today called "Song for Lena". It emphasized our family's desire to teach our kids about giving to the poor.

In summary: the grandmother tells her daughter the story of when she was little and they did not have much money and the family was making apple strudel. A homeless man comes along and asks for bread, and even though they don't have much themselves the mom says "I bet he gets a lot of bread, let's give him apple strudel today". (I love that they give him even more than he asks for). The man plays a beautiful song and comes back each year for strudel and plays the same song. There is a recipe for strudel at the end. It's good for 4 yrs old and up.