Alone Together
A Curious Exploration of Loneliness
Is one the loneliest number?
La description
The world is facing an epidemic of loneliness.
The COVID-19 pandemic taught us new words, like isolation, quarantine and social distancing. In places like the UK and Japan, governments have appointed ministers of loneliness to examine the problem and find ways to help their citizens. What does it mean to be lonely, and what can we do about it?
Alone Together explores what superheroes can teach us about being alone, the ways kids have survived on their own and how activists in the civil rights movement took a stand against loneliness. Discover what comfort foods, sweatpants and being kind to each other have to do with loneliness.
Based on the podcast of the same name. Readers will learn about loneliness and how being alone can ultimately bring us closer together.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Reviews
“Alone Together is a resource not only for preteen or teen audience but also an engaging resource for any adult. Highly Recommended.”
- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
“Fong emphasizes that even when we’re alone, we’re in it together—and we can work through it together. An excellent SEL resource.”
- Booklist
“With no tropes to lean on, Fong has taken apart the topics of “alone” and “together” that preoccupied everyone during the lockdown phase of the pandemic, and created an accessible guide to individual integrity…Fong is thoughtful in the material included but lighthearted in its rendering, and young readers will find much to consider in this “Think” series entry.”
- School Library Journal (SLJ)