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Children Book about Muslim's Refugee.. 2017-08-07 06:59:36 Post No. 136441885
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>Here is a guide to some of the new and forthcoming children’s books about Muslim refugees, ranging from picture books for toddlers and early readers to young adult novels.
>Picture Books
>‘Lost and Found Cat,’ by Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes, with illustrations by Sue Cornelison
>In the fall of 2015, Amy Shrodes was volunteering at a seaside kitchen on the Greek island of Lesbos, serving tea to refugees arriving from Syria and Iraq, when she found a bedraggled white cat. The creature was clearly not one of the island strays. Ms. Shrodes asked around and learned that the cat had come in one of the boats from Turkey, but in the chaos, had become separated from his owners. Ms. Shrodes took the cat in, and made a Facebook page in hopes of finding his family through social media. It turned out, the cat’s name was Kunkush, and the family he belonged to — a woman named Sura and her five children — had fled from Mosul, Iraq, to escape the violence. They had settled in Oslo, and eventually saw a news report about Kunkush and the efforts to find his owners. The family was reunited with Kunkush in February 2016.
>Kunkush’s tale — a rare war story with a happy ending — has been adapted into two picture books. “Lost and Found Cat,” by Ms. Shrodes and Mr. Kuntz, was published by Crown Books for Young Readers in January and is aimed at 4- to 8-year-olds; “Kunkush: The True Story of a Refugee Cat,” by Marne Ventura, with illustrations by Beidi Guo, comes out this month from Raintree.
>Ms. Shrodes said that by centering the story on a missing cat, they approached the difficult subject of the refugee crisis in a way that wasn’t too frightening for young readers.
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>>Ms. Shrodes said that by centering the story on a missing cat, they approached the difficult subject of the refugee crisis in a way that wasn’t too frightening for young readers.
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>‘EscapeFrom Aleppo,’ by N. H. Senzai
>This forthcoming coming-of-age novel follows Nadia, a Syrian girl who turns 12 as the Arab Spring begins in 2010. After a failed democratic uprising in Syria, civil war breaks out and Aleppo is bombed, forcing Nadia’s family to evacuate. The novel will be released in January by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books.
>‘Refugee,’ by Alan Gratz
>Mr. Gratz’s middle-grade novel, which Scholastic published in July, alternates among three narratives that explore the lives of child refugees in different decades and parts of the world. The stories, which are interconnected in surprising ways that are revealed at the end, feature a Jewish boy whose family flees Nazi Germany on the St. Louis ocean liner; a Cuban girl who leaves Havana in 1994; and a Syrian boy from Aleppo, whose family survives a bombing and struggles to make it to Germany, where they will seek asylum. By weaving the stories together, Mr. Gratz draws parallels between the plights of refugees decades ago with those seeking asylum today.
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>‘A Land of Permanent Goodbyes,’ by Atia Abawi
>In her forthcoming novel,Atia Abawi, a foreign correspondent who covered the conflict in Afghanistan, tells the story of Tareq, a Syrian boy who survives a bomb strike that kills some of his family members, and then must escape ISIS-forces in Raqqa. He, his sister and cousin eventually make a run for Greece.
>Ms. Abawi, whose parents left Afghanistan as refugees, visited a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, when she was researching the novel, and saw connections between her own family’s flight to safety and the risks that desperate Syrians were making to escape an entrenched civil war. “As a former refugee I saw a familiarity that I couldn’t shake,” Ms. Abawi wrote in an author’s note. Philomel Books is to release the novel in January.
>‘The Lines We Cross,’ by Randa Abdel-Fattah
>A coming-of-age story with a Romeo-and-Juliet-like romance at its core, “The Lines We Cross”unfolds in Australia, where Mina, a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan, has settled with her family. She forms an unexpectedly flirtatious friendship with Michael, whose parents are hard-core anti-Muslim and anti-immigration activists. The novel was published by Scholastic in May.
Ms. Abdel-Fattah said that she wrote the novel in hopes that Mina might make young readers empathize with refugees. “Some readers have written to me and said it had changed their whole perspective on the refugee debate,” she said.
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