This little book was written so kids can begin to understand in their language what happened before, during and after Katrina. T'was the Night Before the Storm tells the story of one family who evacuated and then returned to the devastation in their post-hurricane damaged neighborhood. The family in this story could be any child's family, and their tale of coping with the Katrina tragedy is a very functional one of working together to rebuild and recover ... (Anne Teachworth, p.62.)