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Drawn across borders : true stories of human migration
Audience Tweens 9-13 years
Published 2021 by Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts
ISBN 9781536217759
Bib Id 2431776
Copyright 2021
Edition First US edition.
Description 46 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 29 cm
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ISBN
9781536217759 (hardcover) $19.00
1536217751 (hbk.)
Call #
J 304.82 B
Title
Drawn across borders : true stories of human migration
Edition
First US edition.
Publication Information
2021 by Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
46 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Note
Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Walker Books.
Contents
Syria, Azaz 2012 -- Tajikistan, Dushanbe 2015 -- Myanmar, Magwe 2015 -- The Balkan route, Greece and Serbia 2015 -- Kenya, Amboseli and Kibera 2018 -- Iraq, West Mosul 2017 -- Serbia, Belgrade 2017 -- Syria, Turkish border 2013 -- Palestine, Gaza 2016 -- Iraq, Mosul 2018 -- Lebanon, Bekaa Valley 2011 -- Iraqi Kurdistan, Duhok 2018.
Summary
Resisting his own urge to walk away, the author, an artist, took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects - migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia - shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and war, and of venturing into the unknown in search of jobs, education, and security. Whether sketching by the hospital bed of a ten-year-old Syrian boy who survived an airstrike, drawing the doll of a little Palestinian girl with big questions, or talking with a Masai herdsman forced to abandon his rural Kenyan home for the Kibera slums, the author turns reflective art and sensitive reportage into a cry for understanding and empathy. --
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Personal narratives.
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