Publishing in March with Pajama Press, My Beautiful Birds tells the story of Sami, a boy who flees with his family from Syria to a refugee camp. With its theme of finding joy in unlikely places, Del Rizzo says she knew right away it was a story she wanted to explore in fiction. She started researching kid-friendly explanations of the crisis to share with her family and came across a UNICEF article about a boy in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp who kept a small bird coop behind his family’s caravan. “I was having a really hard time talking about it in a non-scary sort of way,” says Del Rizzo. In a spate of new and forthcoming books, authors and publishers are doing their best to try and come up with answers.Īttempting to respond to questions from her own school-aged kids about the war in Syria inspired illustrator Suzanne Del Rizzo to write My Beautiful Birds, a book about a young refugee. We’ve seen these things so have our kids, and they have questions.

We’ve seen and heard reports of levelled cities of indignities heaped on asylum seekers pouring into Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and farther afield in countries like Germany of children rescued from bombed-out buildings or washed up dead on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Dewey number j741.5/971 Illustrations illustrations Index no index present LC call number PZ7.7.W378 LC item number Se 2016 Literary form fiction Nature of contents comics graphic novels Shoemaker, Kathryn E.For the past six years, 24-hour news and social media have been beaming images of the Syrian war into our homes. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded Member ofĬataloging source NLC 1931- Watts, Irene N. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. Language eng Summary Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. Kindertransports (Rescue operations) - Comic books, strips, etc.World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Juvenile fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Comic books, strips, etc.

Kindertransports (Rescue operations) - Juvenile fiction.Jewish girls - England - Juvenile fiction.Jewish girls - England - Comic books, strips, etc.

Label Seeking refuge : a graphic novel Title Seeking refuge Title remainder a graphic novel Statement of responsibility Irene N.

Seeking Refuge by Irene N. Watts