sandaal

'In the morning Lina went to do the washing, wearing beautiful sandals. She picked her way to the stream, careful to keep her sandal out of the filth.

Her old shoes has been ruined on the many miles of walking from Afghanistan to Peshawar, the refugee camp in Pakistan. She had carried her brother Najiib, no bigger than a water jug then, but just as heavy...'

do we learn less, or more
by reading children
stories

?