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Drawn across borders : true stories of human migration / George Butler.

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Material Type
Book
Author
Butler, George, 1985-
Publication Info.
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021.
Publication Info.
©2021

Details

Edition
First US edition.
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. -- Publisher's description.
Audience
Ages 10+ Candlewick Press.
Subject
Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile literature.
Rural-urban migration -- Juvenile literature.
Migration, Internal -- Juvenile literature.
Refugees -- Juvenile literature.
Emigration and immigration.
Rural-urban migration.
Migration, Internal.
Refugees.
Emigration and immigration.
Migration, Internal.
Refugees.
Rural-urban migration.
Immigration and emigration.
Internal migration.
Refugees.
Genre/Form
Personal narratives.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Personal narratives.
Picture books.
Added Title
True stories of human migration
ISBN
9781536217759 (hardback)
1536217751 (hardback)