I, too, loved reading this. A great, engaging post about an important topic. And very moving.
I love how these books travel across different times and different geographies. That some are autobiographies. And, that they seem to use very different forms of expression (prose, verse, drawing) to express their author‘s creative writing.
I will check out Salva‘s Ted Talk — fascinating!
And indeed we have also had refugees in our family, as you know. When our dad, your granddad — Opa — was only 4 years old he fled from Hungary with his mom and 3 siblings. They survived the terrible bombing in Dresden in February of 1945. They lost all their belongings during just one night — but the most important thing was that they all survived, the five of them. It seemed like a miracle given how many died there. They even found his dad, who had not been travelling with them, a few weeks later, in Germany. And then they started over, from scratch. Hard to imagine what they went through, isn‘t it.
We've had a few refugees of our own in the family...
Not all authors of children's and YA books dare to deal with difficult topics like that, and it's admirable when they do it and manage to do it without just being devastating. You've learnt a lot of history by reading these books!
I, too, loved reading this. A great, engaging post about an important topic. And very moving.
I love how these books travel across different times and different geographies. That some are autobiographies. And, that they seem to use very different forms of expression (prose, verse, drawing) to express their author‘s creative writing.
I will check out Salva‘s Ted Talk — fascinating!
And indeed we have also had refugees in our family, as you know. When our dad, your granddad — Opa — was only 4 years old he fled from Hungary with his mom and 3 siblings. They survived the terrible bombing in Dresden in February of 1945. They lost all their belongings during just one night — but the most important thing was that they all survived, the five of them. It seemed like a miracle given how many died there. They even found his dad, who had not been travelling with them, a few weeks later, in Germany. And then they started over, from scratch. Hard to imagine what they went through, isn‘t it.
Thanks a lot for this great post dear Clara.
We've had a few refugees of our own in the family...
Not all authors of children's and YA books dare to deal with difficult topics like that, and it's admirable when they do it and manage to do it without just being devastating. You've learnt a lot of history by reading these books!
Great, I love to read your impressions and your analyses.