This was an amazing book that clearly displays the emotions and events that could take a place for a family who have to leave a country. She is best known for her warm and witty portrayals of family relationships, and for her outstanding work for preschool picture books.

It's in how she bridges that gap and starts to weave the two together, that's where the vibrant heart of this book kicks in. Told through the eyes of children, this moving collection of short stories focuses on the experiences of asylum seekers from all over the world. There's a fine line between questioning an issue, between highlighting the awfulness of something, through to trying to impose your authorial ideology upon another. Illustrated throughout, this heartfelt story contains so much: a family coping with bereavement, the alienation of moving somewhere new, and what it’s like when you can’t speak the language of the people around you. Told through comic strips, this is a really accessible story for children to dissect, and an important one at that.This picture book, written and illustrated in frames, as a graphic novel would be, tells the story of Azzi, a refugee from an unspecified* middle-eastern country to a western country.

This book will be great to show children to widen their understanding of the variety of backgrounds, cultures and experiences others have. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a new home and Azzi must start a new school. It is important to understand that this is similar to events which are happening in the world right now. It was still a very good book for kids to read to gain an understanding of what other children are going through. This book would help American children understand the perspective of some refugee children coming to our schools and might help those refugees feel that they're not alone.

The text is so rich and would be brilliant to use in KS2 classrooms where it could be explored and enjoyed to its full potential. It’s aimed at children so I can see why some of the more horrific aspects of life as a refugee are left out, but this meant it didn’t have the punch-in-the-gut impact I was hoping for.