A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the
heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced
to become a refugee.
The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father
sang my baby brother back to sleep.
Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and
drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble.
Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a
dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the
end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a
child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very
precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies's text
combines with Rebecca Cobb's expressive illustrations to evoke the
experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.