It's never too soon to start teaching your kids about trade unions — and one good way to do so is through children's books that cast unions in a positive light. There aren't a lot of these, which is why we're delighted to have come across a new historical novel by Mary Cronk Farrell, "Fire in the Hole". It's suitable for readers aged 8 and above and I encourage all LabourStart readers to purchase copies for your own kids. To learn more about this book and to order your copies, click here: http://tinyurl.com/yey5m9c Fire in the Hole! By Mary Cronk Farrell Fourteen-year-old Mick doesn’t want to end up like his father, a rough-hewn miner working for low wages in the Coeur d’Alene silver-mining district of Idaho. He doesn’t like the militant, often confrontational approach of his father’s union as the men struggle against an uncaring mine owner and would rather do his fighting with words like his mentor, Mr. Delaney, who runs the town newspaper. But when a handful of radicals blow up the mining company’s ore-concentrating mill, Mick’s dreams blow up with it.