Learning to Be Stone · My Hadithi

Learning to Be Stone

A story for the quiet ones. And for anyone who thinks the brightest part of them is already over.

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CBC tags for this book

Core competencies

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Self-efficacy

Values

Love

Pertinent and contemporary issues

Social Economic Issues

Language: English

A glimpse inside

This lyrical fable follows a shooting star who falls to Earth and becomes a stone, then is found by a girl who pours her hope, her grandmother's songs, and her father's absence into its silence. What the stone becomes in the stillness is more than it ever was in the fire. A moving story for children standing at their own thresholds, learning that change is not loss.

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