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COMIC: 'Place Of Peace And Security': Bringing The Library Home During The Pandemic

By Eda Uzunlar

Published April 27, 2021 at 5:00 AM CDT

It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: Educate students in entirely new ways, amid the backdrop of a global pandemic. In this comic series, we'll illustrate one educator's story each week from now until the end of the school year.

Episode 6

Librarian Emily Curtis and bus driver Edwin Steer of Georgetown, Texas, discuss creating places of "peace and security" by delivering books to students who can't be in school.

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