Hope for Haiti

4–7Best for little kids★ 4.1

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A boy living in a tent camp after the Port-au-Prince earthquake watches older kids play with a ball made of rags, and eventually gets into the game. The paintings carry the loss; the soccer carries the recovery.

Why we picked it

It shows a kid what the game looks like when everything else is gone, which is the shortest route to understanding why so much of the world plays it.

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Hope for Haiti

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