Children's Fiction Emigration & Immigration
Seeking Refuge
- Publisher
- Tradewind Books
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2017
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, Europe, Holocaust
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926890029
- Publish Date
- Mar 2017
- List Price
- $18.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
In this follow-up to the successful Goodbye Marianne, Irene Watts explores what it is like for a young refugee girl to flee Nazi-occupied Austria alone. The poignant story is relatable to the terrible situation facing refugees in Europe and around the world today.
About the authors
In 1968 Irene N. Watts came to Canada from Britain, where she had arrived thirty years earlier from Germany, via Kindertransport. She is a writer/playwright, theatre director, and educator. Her plays for young audiences have been widely produced. Awards include a Vancouver Theatre Alliance Jessie Richardson for Goodbye Marianne (Scirocco Drama and Anchorage Press, U.S.); the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People; the Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award (Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards, 1999 and 2001); the Government of Alberta Achievement Award for Outstanding Service to Drama. Irene is a Lifetime Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Recent publications include Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People, compiled with Lillian Boraks-Nemetz (Tundra Books).
Kathryn E. Shoemaker is the illustrator of many books for children, among them A Telling Time, My Animal Friends and Floyd the Flamingo and His Flock of Friends for Tradewind Books. She teaches children’s illustration at Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Awards
- Winner, The Western Canada Jewish Book Award
- Short-listed, The Chocolate Lily Award
- Winner, The Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature
Editorial Reviews
"Based on the author's novel Remember Me, this graphic novel captures the melancholy nature of the story—the isolation from, and longing for, the familiar comforts of home and family—through Shoemaker's limited-palette, charcoal-hued illustrations."
The Horn Book
"Black-and-white pencil sketches reflect a mood of loneliness and the bleakness of the time period...The glossary...does a great job of explaining terms at an age-appropriate level without shying away from harsh truths."
School Library Journal
"Both Watts and Shoemaker have created a story that really manages to convey the fear, the tension, the unease of a refugee arriving in a country where she is not really welcomed by everyone, and even looked down on by some...Hopefully, this is a book that will get young readers thinking."
The Children's War Blog
★ "Author and illustrator show their collaborative finesse in a wonderfully rendered marriage between text and art...A book that invites close reading, this will spark interest in the plight of all refugees."
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope."
Publishers Weekly
"Seeking Refuge contains much about hope and the resilience of the spirit in times of adversity. While the book is recommended for ages nine and older, adults, too, will find it engrossing."
Jewish Chronicle, London
"This beautifully rendered graphic novel...would make a gentle, highly visual addition to Holocaust curriculum, or it could be an excellent tool for introducing xenophobia and refugee crisis to upper-elementary and middle-grade readers."
Booklist
Other titles by
Dear Canada: Hoping for Home
Stories of Arrival
Escape from Berlin
Touched by Fire
Cher Journal : Terre d'accueil, terre d'espoir
Onze récits
No Pets Allowed
Munsch at Play Act 2
Eight More Stage Adaptations
No Moon
Munsch at Play
Eight Stage Adaptations for Young Performers
Good-bye Marianne
A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany
