Kaboom!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play Poetry for Kids I Love a Book opens

I Love a Book opens with a list of types of books and where to find them

and a race against time

With global markets on the brink

-Moby Dick

Kaboom!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play Poetry for Kids I Love a Book opensIn 1995, Darell Hammond read an article in the Washington Post about an unthinkable tragedy: Two young children suffocated in a car on a hot summer day in southeast Washington, DC. The story indicated that the children had nowhere to play; in the absence of a playground, they had climbed into an abandoned car. Reading the article fueled Hammond's sense of injustice, and his life's mission came into focus. Hammond founded KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit