Zenobia
Morten Durr$16.96
$19.95
A deeply moving and award-winning graphic novel about a young Syrian refugee. Zenobia was once a great warrior queen of Syria whose reign reached from Egypt to Turkey. She was courageous. No one gave her orders. Once she even went to war against the emperor of Rome.
When things feel overwhelming for Amina, her mother reminds her to think of Zenobia and be strong. Amina is a Syrian girl caught up in a war that reaches her village. To escape the war she boards a small boat crammed with other refugees. The boat is rickety and the turbulent seas send Amina overboard. In the dark water Amina remembers playing hide and seek with her mother and making dolmas (stuffed grape leaves) and the journey she had to undertake with her uncle to escape. And she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia.
Zenobia is a heartbreaking and all-too-real story of one child's experience of war. Told with great sensitivity in few words and almost exclusively with pictures, Zenobia is a story for children and adults.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: 11/13/2018
ISBN: 9781609808730
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2018 pg. 79
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 54
School Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 124
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 56
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
When things feel overwhelming for Amina, her mother reminds her to think of Zenobia and be strong. Amina is a Syrian girl caught up in a war that reaches her village. To escape the war she boards a small boat crammed with other refugees. The boat is rickety and the turbulent seas send Amina overboard. In the dark water Amina remembers playing hide and seek with her mother and making dolmas (stuffed grape leaves) and the journey she had to undertake with her uncle to escape. And she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia.
Zenobia is a heartbreaking and all-too-real story of one child's experience of war. Told with great sensitivity in few words and almost exclusively with pictures, Zenobia is a story for children and adults.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: 11/13/2018
ISBN: 9781609808730
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.60d
Review Citations: Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2018 pg. 79
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 54
School Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 124
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 56
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average