A powerful and necessary picture book – the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey – all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very precious … When the government refused to allow 3000 child refugees to enter this country in 2016, Nicola Davies was so angry she wrote a poem. It started a campaign for which artists contributed drawings of chairs, symbolising a seat in a classroom, education, kindness, the hope of a future. The poem has become this book, movingly illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, which should prove a powerful aid for explaining the ongoing refugee crisis to younger readers.

Featured in WOW Review Volume XII, Issue 2 and Volume XI, Issue 2.

• ISBN: 9781536201734
• Published: 2018 , Candlewick
• Themes: Effects of war, Poetry, Refugees, violence
• Descriptors: England (UK), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 32