Book Recommendation: The Walk by Winsome Bingham (Author), E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

I heard about this book and wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll): A Picture Book

You need to share this with all of your friends and family with and without children. Our young people need to start learning the importance of voting at an early age, and some of us older people need to remember.

Winsome Bingham takes us on a journey that was common in the deep south many years ago. The grandmother in the story takes her granddaughter on “The Walk” to the voting place. In the process, she teaches her and all of us readers about the importance of voting. For some communities, the freedom to vote is a hard-fought-for right. And that right is constantly being threatened. Other communities think of voting as a privilege. We all need to remember that voting cannot be taken for granted.

To quote Bingham:

“We think about voting and we individualize it so much, but at the end of the day, one person doesn’t elect [the] mayor or school board member or city council or the president. We need a collective community to make that happen, to make that work.”

There is no agenda being pushed other than everyone voting. Sitting out is not an option. This is a value we need to instill in all of our young people or our democracy will not survive.

As the grandmother tells her granddaughter in the book, “Leaders are not born, they are made through molding and modeling.” Let us all be models they can look up to and emulate.