The day war came
A powerful and necessary picture book - the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey - all alone. Imagine finding no we...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Somerville, Massachusetts
Candlewick Press
2018
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| Ausgabe: | First U.S. edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A powerful and necessary picture book - the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey - all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very precious ... When the government refused to allow 3000 child refugees to enter this country in 2016, Nicola Davies was so angry she wrote a poem. It started a campaign for which artists contributed drawings of chairs, symbolising a seat in a classroom, education, kindness, the hope of a future. The poem has become this book, movingly illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, which should prove a powerful aid for explaining the ongoing refugee crisis to younger readers |
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| Beschreibung: | Überwiegend Illustrationen (farbig) Auf dem vorderen Einband: Published in association with Help Refugees |
| Beschreibung: | 14 ungezählte Blätter 25 x 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 1536201731 1-5362-0173-1 9781536201734 978-1-5362-0173-4 9781406376326 978-1-4063-7632-6 1406376329 1-4063-7632-9 |