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The journey / by Francesca Sanna.
I look up to the birds that seem to be following us. They are migrating just like us. And their journey, like ours, is very long, but they don't have to cross any borders. With haunting echoes of today's world, this beautifully illustrated book explores the heartwrenching unimaginability of leaving ones home to seek refuge from the turmoil of war.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781909263994 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: London : Flying Eye Books, 2016.
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| Subject: | Refugees > Juvenile fiction. Families > Juvenile fiction. War > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Picture books. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
In this beautiful new picture book, Francesca Sanna's interviews with refugee families in Europe become a searing parable of empathy and hope. Two young children and their mother must escape the dangers of war, but before them liesà a journey. Amidst border guards and nights in hiding, one family's determination and faith in one another carries them through a story of massive contemporary importance. 15,000 first printing. - Perseus PublishingA haunting echo of today, this beautiful book explores the unimaginable decision to abandon home in the face of war.
- Perseus Publishing
". . . a wonderful teaching tool for those who are welcoming refugees into their community."âThe New York Times
With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.
From the author: The Journey is actually a story about many journeys, and it began with the story of two girls I met in a refugee center in Italy. After meeting them I realized that behind their journey lay something very powerful. So I began collecting more stories of migration and interviewing many people from many different countries. A few months later, in September 2014, when I started studying a Master of Arts in Illustration at the Academy of Lucerne, I knew I wanted to create a book about these true stories. Almost every day on the news we hear the terms "migrants" and "refugees" but we rarely ever speak to or hear the personal journeys that they have had to take. This book is a collage of all those personal stories and the incredible strength of the people within them.
