Story Boat

When you have to leave behind almost everything you know, where can you call home? Sometimes home is simply where we are: here. A imaginative, lyrical, unforgettable picture book about the migrant experience through a child's eyes.

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.

This timely, sensitively told story, written by multiple award--winner Kyo Maclear and illustrated by Sendak Fellowship recipient Rashin Kheiriyeh, introduces very young readers in a gentle, non-frightening and ultimately hopeful way to the current refugee crisis.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Published: 02/04/2020
ISBN: 9780735263598
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/28/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019 pg. 213
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 65
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2020