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    The Reckoning: Disturbing Reading

    The Reckoning: Disturbing Reading

    Should children be exposed to books about slavery, racism and violence? Today Sisilia Eteuati, an Auckland writer, lawyer and mother, gives us her very good reasons for putting serious subject matter on her children’s bookshelves. On the eve of my 39th birthday, I sat outside on a beautiful summer’s evening and watched I Am Not Your Negro. Earlier I had asked my six-year-old who was engrossed in Lego if he wanted to come. A sprawling space city was emerging beneath his patien

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