Lucy Falcone – ‘I Didn’t Stand Up’

Description

I Didn’t Stand Up by Lucy Falcone and illustrated by Jacqueline Hudon (Clockwise Press, hardcover)

Publication Date: February 1, 2019

Publisher Marketing:

First they went after Jalal. But I’m not black. So I didn’t stand up for him.

Then they went after Mariana. I was born in this country — So I didn’t stand up for her.

A picture book inspired by the iconic poem “First They Came for the Socialists” written by Pastor Martin Niemöller in opposition to the oppression from the Nazi regime, I Didn’t Stand Up looks at common circumstances of oppression that children encounter through the eyes of the bystander — until he or she becomes a victim.

Backmatter includes a history of the original poem and Pastor Martin Niemöller.

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