Migrants

Name: Migrants
Brand: Arotahi Agency
SKU: 9781776573134
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By Issa Watanabe

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A heartstoppingly beautiful wordless picture book about migration and empathy. The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices are made, and loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last, the journey is over, and the migrants arrive. This... Read More

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Migrants

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Migrants

A heartstoppingly beautiful wordless picture book of courage, loss and hope—everything it takes to migrate to a new land.

“ Migrants is deeply emotional, unsentimental, dignified, respectful, beautiful. It is about courage, getting up, continuing on, starting again. It demands full emotional attention and makes us want to read it again and again.” Julia Marshall, Publisher

Description

A heartstoppingly beautiful wordless picture book about migration and empathy.

The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices are made, and loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last, the journey is over, and the migrants arrive. This is the new place.

Through extraordinarily powerful images, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals that leaves behind a leafless forest. With forceful simplicity, Migrants shows us the courage, loss, and underlying hope that migration entails. It reveals that arriving in a new land may mean burying a portion of the past.

Children will empathise quickly with the elegantly illustrated animal characters, each of whom has their own identity, characterised by details like clothing, colour choices, and expressions. The dark pages add weight to the silence of their journey, and the individual animals help make the story a universal one. It is a perfect book to help teach children about refugees and migration, with humanity, inclusivity, and empathy.

Readers can’t fail to be moved by this deeply emotional and thought-provoking tale.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781776573134

Publisher: Gecko Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 August 2020

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Gecko Press

Contributors:

Illustrated by Issa Watanabe

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 40

Collections

Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Issa Watanabe New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Children's Books New Zealand Published

About the Author

Issa Watanabe was born in Peru in 1980, the daughter of an illustrator and a poet. She studied Literature and Fine Arts and Illustration. Watanabe has led and developed several projects to promote social integration through art. She has published a number of books and was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Book Fair 2018.