I Know Here
Laurel Croza
- Reading
- Read together and pause over the girl’s remembered places and the illustrations. Invite your child to draw or describe something they would want to remember, if that feels useful to them.
- Themes
- Leaving home and remembering: A girl learns her family will move to Toronto and reflects on the familiar places she will leave. The story makes room for the difficulty of leaving while offering drawing and memory as ways to keep what matters; it is described as hopeful rather than sentimental.
- Worth knowing
- The family’s move and the girl’s concern about leaving familiar surroundings are central. The treatment is described as hopeful but unsentimental; the ending’s full emotional resolution is not established.