These picture books offer tips to the young to stay safe during the pandemic Although children around the world are so far less severely affected by covid-19, their lives are being upset by the virus in other ways.
Millions of school-goers have suddenly been forced to reckon with virtual classrooms. Social distancing norms demand that they stay home, away from friends, loved ones, playgrounds.
Their daily regimen is made tougher by injunctions to wash hands, sneeze and cough into tissues or elbows, and rebukes for touching the face.
As parental patience wears thin and children are at their wits’ end, these four books, published speedily in the last few days and available to download for free, may keep children and their caregivers usefully