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 6Librarian 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. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
COMIC: 'Place Of Peace And Security': Bringing The Library Home During The Pandemic
!["I do worry about those kids who are home alone. We hope for the best, but being able to send [a book] home – it's a little world that they can go off and enjoy."](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/55fd9ab/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4800x6000+0+0/resize/880x1100!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F04%2Flib8_custom-f10279e54fba52c0ddc3ab382b253a0a85f5fc35.jpg)