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Summary

When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves -- wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things -- a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story -- can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell -- a story that will carry them perpetually forward.

Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review: "Maclear (Operatic) captures in lyrical verse the lives of two young refugees, for whom "here" is a different place every day. In warm, childlike drawings on blue pages, Kheiriyeh (Saffron Ice Cream) portrays a group of people dressed in thick overcoats, their belongings loaded in carts and suitcases, helping each other. A girl in the group speaks to a smaller boy about the few treasured belongings that give meaning to their existence. Their teacup is one: "Every morning,/ As things keep changing,/ We sit wherever we are/ And sip, sip, sip.../ From this cup." A page turn corresponds to a new perception: "And this cup is a home." Kheiriyeh draws the children within the cup underneath a bright orange sun. More cherished objects--the family's blanket ("patterned and soft"), their lamp, a field of flowers--become the children's "here." And as the blanket becomes a sail, the lamp a lighthouse, and so on, the objects combine, becoming a boat that carries everyone over the waves, and a story that takes the group at last to a welcoming place. The creators tell a refugee story in simple language with everyday objects, making it graspable for young readers. Ages 3--7. (Feb.)"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Refugee children Juvenile fiction Refugees Juvenile fiction Home Juvenile fiction Homelessness Juvenile fiction Juvenile Literature Juvenile Fiction Picture Book Fiction Electronic books. Picture books for children. Picture books.
Publisher	[Place of publication not identified] :Tundra,2020 Tundra2020
Contributors	Kheiriyeh, Rashin, illustrator. Walker, Tara, editor. Blankier, M., 1986- editorial assistant. OverDrive, Inc.
Audience	P-2.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: OverDrive Read
Description	1 online resource
ISBN	9780735263604 9780735263604
Other	Classic View