The Great Realization

By: Tomos Roberts - Tomfoolery

Narrated by: Tomos Roberts - Tomfoolery

Selected by Today as a book "to ease kids’ anxiety about coronavirus.”

We all need hope. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to battle through adversity, but only if they have something to cling onto: a belief or hope that maybe, one day, things will be better.

This idea sparked The Great Realization. Sharing the truths we may find hard to tell but also celebrating the things—from simple acts of kindness and finding joy in everyday activities, to the creativity within us all—that have brought us together during lockdown, it gives us hope in this time of global crisis.

Written for his younger brother and sister in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem is as timely as it is timeless. Its message of hope and resilience, of rebirth and renewal, has captured the hearts of children and adults all over the globe—and the glimpse it offers of a fairer, kinder, more sustainable world continues to inspire thousands every day.

With Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem, The Great Realization is a profound work, at once striking and reassuring, reminding listeners young and old that in the face of adversity there are still dreams to be dreamt and kindnesses to be shared and hope. There is still hope.

We now call it The Great Realization

and, yes, since then there have been many.

But that’s the story of how it started . . .

and why hindsight’s 2020.

©2020 Tom Roberts (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Philosophical

I think one thing that changed was the virus and it took a while virus that we did something wrong. It talks about the problems of the world we had and the benefits of what covid has. If you don’t like a long philosophical book or two this whole story in 4 minute story will tell you. That there’s more than just material thing to life.

POWERFUL!!!

I loved this poem when I first saw it and I'm so glad they made it into a book!!! It's nice having this on Audible read by the author. It's a great story of hope in a dark time.