This one is good for both older and younger children. With a picture storybook about a girl who wakes up in the night from an earthquake, and then has to send her grandmother to the hospital, and can't go with, it is a gentle view into the destruction and devastation an earthquake causes. She tries to head to her own house to see her parents and her sister, but when she gets there she finds half her apartment building gone, and no one home. She finally gets reunited with her family after walking through parts of the city and seeing the aftermath of the earthquake. At the end of the book is a Reader's Theater play for up to six people.
Warning: While this book touches on a sensitive subject, most of it is gentle enough for sensitive children, although most children should do well with most of it. There is one part, however, that deserves a special attention for the sensitive child. Lizzie is helping a firefighter remove rubble from a house because they hear someone calling for help. However, when they can't hear any more calling for help, they stop and say they are going to move on to another person who needs more help, because it will probably be too late by the time they reach this person and they have limited resources. While this is true and accurate of disaster management situations, some children might have an issue with this. And some adults, too, for that matter.
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