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In this follow-up to their successful graphic novel, Goodbye Marianne, award-winning author, Irene Watts, and celebrated illustrator, Kathryn Shoemaker, explore the reality of a young refugee girl who flees Nazi Germany on a kindertransporte, taking Jewish children to safety in Britain, never to see her family again. Though lucky to be alive, Marianne is terribly lonely in her new home. She has to learn to speak English and she longs for her real family. This story will resonate with young people aware of the dire situation of refugees migrating through Europe today.

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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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (02/15/2017) 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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (03/01/2017) Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope. --Publishers Weekly (01/09/2017) Based on the author's novel Remember Me, this graphic novel captures the melancholy nature of the story&#8212the isolation from, and longing for, the familiar comforts of home and family&#8212through Shoemaker's limited-palette, charcoal-hued illustrations. --The Horn Book (08/02/2017)

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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (03/01/2017) 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. -- (02/15/2017) Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope. --Publishers Weekly (01/09/2017) Based on the author's novel Remember Me, this graphic novel captures the melancholy nature of the story&#8212the isolation from, and longing for, the familiar comforts of home and family&#8212through Shoemaker's limited-palette, charcoal-hued illustrations. --The Horn Book (08/02/2017)

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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (03/20/2017) 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. -- (03/01/2017) Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope. --Publishers Weekly (01/09/2017) 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. -- (02/15/2017) Based on the author's novel Remember Me, this graphic novel captures the melancholy nature of the story&#8212the isolation from, and longing for, the familiar comforts of home and family&#8212through Shoemaker's limited-palette, charcoal-hued illustrations. --The Horn Book (08/02/2017)

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Irene N. Watts was born in Berlin and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, many years ago. She is the author of numerous books and plays for children and young people, among them Goodbye Marianne and No Pets Allowed, published by Tradewind. 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.

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