The Day War Came
Author: Nicola Davies
Illustrator: Rebecca Cobb
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Print Length: 32 pages
Genre: Children’s Book, Fiction / Realistic Fiction
Topic: Activism, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Children & Childhood, War, Loneliness & Isolatedness, Vulnerability, Survival, Hope, Resilience
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.
Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include The Promise, Tiny, A First Book of Nature and King of the Sky. Nicola lives in West Wales. She graduated in Zoology from King’s College, University of Cambridge, and studied geese, bats and whales before becoming a presenter for The Really Wild Show and the BBC Natural History Unit. She has been writing for children for more than 20 years. Underlying all Nicola’s writing is the belief that a relationship with nature is essential to every human being, and that now, more than ever, we need to renew that relationship.
Source: https://libraries.wales/aotm/nicola-davies/
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Rebecca Cobb is a rising star in children’s picture books. Since graduating from Falmouth College of Arts in 2004, she has illustrated for many clients including Guardian Guide, Guardian Weekend magazine, The Independent and Waitrose Food Illustrated. Rebecca has collaborated on two picture storybooks with the Orange-Prize winner Helen Dunmore, both set in her native Cornwall. In addition, Rebecca’s stunning illustrations accompanied Julia’s Donaldson’s wonderfully lyrical story in The Paper Dolls and The Everywhere Bear. Her solo picture books include Missing Mummy, Lunchtime, and Aunt Amelia, all published by Macmillan Publisher.
Source: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/rebecca-cobb/6237
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