Children’s books on the refugee experience are crucial reading
We should promote the reading of more of these books, and at all ages. I would recommend The Colour of Home by Mary Hoffman, a picture book about a Somali child confronting their past and adapting to the present. Sarah Garland’s Azzi In Between, a graphic novel for younger children, is also fantastic, as is Shadow by the past Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, and my favourite, Beverley Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth, which follows two Nigerian children who are smuggled into Britain following the assassination of their mother, and fostered by an English family until their father can join them.
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