When you have to leave behind almost everything you know, where can
you call home? Sometimes home is simply where we are: here. An
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.