Kids Around The World Are Reading NPR’s Coronavirus Comic

How do you explain coronavirus to kids?

Last week, NPR published a comic, written by Malaka Gharib, geared to children about the newly discovered virus. NPR also recently published the comic in Chinese. Since then, the comic has been translated into other languages — including Braille, Finnish, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Russian, and Lithuanian— and is finding an audience in schools and libraries as well as at home.

A graphic designer from Bolivia made a Spanish version of the comic.

 

Librarians have been printing and folding a bunch of zines and putting them in the children’s section at their libraries.

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Popped these next to the kids graphic novels at my library because facts are good, xenophobia is the worst and @malakagharib made an A+ zine for kids about the Coronavirus. #zines #zine #malakagharib #childrenslibrarian #zinesforkids #librarian #librariansofinstagram

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And a middle-school teacher turned it into a video — with a kid doing the narration.

And it’s not just kids who are reading the comic — adults have reached out and said it’s been a helpful resource, too. One person is displaying the zine on his desk.

For you zine people I also made a printable zine version of the comic — print and fold at home! Just made mine https://t.co/cgUg1vXi5P pic.twitter.com/0uq5HSMNEf

— Malaka Gharib (@MalakaGharib) February 28, 2020