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

Van Pelt Library JV6035 .B88 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Butler, George, 1985- author, illustrator.
Contributor:
Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in Children's and Young Adult Literature Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Emigration and immigration--Juvenile literature.
Emigration and immigration.
Rural-urban migration--Juvenile literature.
Rural-urban migration.
Migration, Internal--Juvenile literature.
Migration, Internal.
Refugees--Juvenile literature.
Refugees.
Genre:
Picture books.
Physical Description:
46 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Edition:
First US edition.
Place of Publication:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021.
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.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Notes:
Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Walker Books.
ISBN:
9781536217759
1536217751
OCLC:
1240733319
Publisher Number:
99987197079

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