The day war Came
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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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PUBLISHED
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1536201731
9781536201734
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cobb, Rebecca.
SUBJECTS
Refugee children -- Fiction.
Refugee children -- Education -- Fiction.
War and society -- Fiction.
Unaccompanied refugee children -- Fiction.