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New Year by Mei Zihan ill. Qin Leng tr. Yan Yan

December 16, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 17 Dec 2021

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“Details the deep emotions and ambivalence of a father who is at once proud of his daughter’s achievements and independence, yet wistful over how quickly she has grown up and lives too far away to celebrate Spring Festival with him.” KIRKUS
“Leng’s distinct, delicate ink-and-watercolor illustrations offer scenes from both China and France, with intricate details conjuring each location.” Publishers Weekly
“The book’s cultural themes make it a good addition for any library collection that wishes to enhance its representation of cultural diversity.” Canadian Review of Materials

A moving picture book to read for those missing family far away.

It’s Lunar New Year, a time when families come together for a wonderful feast, and a father longs to be with his daughter — but she lives in another country. As he imagines how his daughter is spending the festivities, he recalls fond memories of time spent with her, feeling a sense of loss and dislocation. While he misses her deeply, he also recognizes her need to move away, grow up, and become herself.

New Year is a compelling portrait of leaving home, finding independence, and loving those who are many miles away. At a time when so many families are unable to gather together, readers will relate to the universal message of missing our loved ones and dreaming of being together again.

Mei Zihan is an author and a professor at Shanghai Normal University.

Qin Leng was born in Shanghai and now lives in Toronto where she works as a designer and illustrator. Her numerous picture books have been nominated for several prizes, including a Governor General’s Literary Award.
Over The Shop was an ACHUKA Book of the Day on 20 Jan 2021.

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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Illustrated Tagged With: childhood, family, immigration, memory, missing, relationships

Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga

October 28, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment


ACHUKA Book of the day 28 Oct 2020

BfK 5-Star review

A short, essential introduction to Black British history by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. Based on the author’s ‘groundbreaking’ adult title Black and British: A Forgotten History.

Revised and rewritten for younger readers, Olusoga’s insightful and invaluable history of the Black experience in the British Isles ranges from forgotten Africans in the Roman legions to the multicultural society of the present day.

When did Africans first come to Britain?
Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings?
Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution?

These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall right up to the present day.
This children’s version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits.
Macmillan Children’s Books will donate 50p from every copy sold to The Black Curriculum.

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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, NonFiction Tagged With: black, history, immigration

Hope In A Scary World – First Title In New Series From Tiny Owl

September 14, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

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There’s Room For Everyone by Anahita Teymorian is the launch title (publishing later this month) in a projected new series from Tiny Owl called ‘Hope In A Scary World’.

Tiny Owl’s publisher Delaram Ghanimifard says, “I think we underestimate children. We cover their eyes and their ears and hope they won’t see and hear: but they do see, and they do understand. So we need books for children, in their own playful way, to show them what’s wrong with the world and how they can fix it! And that there’s always hope.”

She says they chose There’s Room For Everyone as the launch title “Because even today, we’re still facing problems around refugees and immigration, and people thinking that the world belongs only to themselves. This book was perfect to show how silly that idea was, and how with kindness, we can all live happily in this world.”

 

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: hope, immigration, refugees

From fleeing Hitler to teatime with tiger: the adventures of Judith Kerr | The Times

September 13, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

I don’t often link to Times features, because of the paywall, but there was a rather good double page feature profile of Judith Kerr in yesterday Times Review, in which, amongst other things, the 92-year-old Kerr showed herself to be very clear-headed about the current migrant situation:

thetimes“It’s almost overwhelming change. I think it’s not just the war in Syria, it’s that people who used to live fairly awful lives in all those places didn’t know there was anything better and now they can see it, how people live [in the West]. It will be a different world. The religion bit is the uncertain thing. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a problem at all: these are excellent people.”

Judith Kerr’s latest book is Mister Cleghorn’s Seal

via From fleeing Hitler to teatime with tiger: the adventures of Judith Kerr | The Times.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Europe, German, Germany, immigration, migrant

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