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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Linda Sue Park
Genre : Children’s Books
Those of us who live in industrialized countries take running water from a tap for granted. It’s important for our grade-school age children and grandchildren to learn of what other children are facing in other parts of the world. A Long Walk to Water is based on a true story.
This is an excellent and heart-warming story of two children living in Sudan—Salva in 1985 and Nya in 2008. Nya, age 11 is from the Nuer tribe, and Salva, also age 11, is from the Dinka tribe. Nuer and Dinka tribes have been enemies for hundreds of years.
Nya walks four hours to the pond to fetch water for her family and then walks four hours back. Salva runs away from his war-torn village. He is a “lost boy” refugee, walking from the Sudan to an Ethiopian refugee camp and eventually to a Kenya refugee camp on foot, searching for his family and safety.
Salva writes, “I overcame all the difficult situations of my past because of the hope and perseverance that I had. I would have not made it without these two things. To young people, I would like to say, ‘Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.'”
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