Stormy Seas
Stories of Young Boat Refugees
Book - 2017
"A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba fl es Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context."-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
Toronto : Annick Press, [2017]
ISBN:
9781554518968
1554518962
9781554518951
1554518954
1554518962
9781554518951
1554518954
Characteristics:
56 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
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Add a CommentBeautifully illustrated and filled with compassion, this book is a helpful tool to introduce the experience of refugees, war, and persecution to young readers. Reading this book to my 8-yr-old son prompted many questions from him, including, "what is a refugee?", "What happened in Syria", and "Is Canada good to refugees?"
I highly recommend this title!
What I enjoyed the most about this book was the variety of stories, including refugees from Germany in 1939, Vietnam in 1979, Cuba in 1980, Afghanistan in 2000 and the Ivory Coast in 2006. Each refugee story includes quick facts and a "what happened to" so you know what happened to each real-life person. Age appropriate for older elementary-aged readers.