A bilingual book to help children adjust to wearing masks

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Masks are essential to stopping the spread of COVID-19, but at the beginning of the pandemic, a couple in Denton, Texas, near Dallas, had a hard time convincing their daughter to wear one. KERA’s Alejandra Martinez shows how this dilemma inspired the couple to write a Spanish-English children’s book.

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