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War arrives,\nwe must flee –
\nWhere is safety?<\/p>\n
War arrives,
\nwe must flee –
\nWhere is safety?<\/p>\n
This powerful picture book by an Italian illustrator and author uses black and sunset-hued colors to chronicle the escape of a young girl, her younger brother, and their mother from the war-torn land<\/a> “by the sea” where their father disappeared.<\/p>\n Ask for The Journey<\/em> at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n How do we help others find safety? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Journey \/ Francesca Sanna. Flying Eye Books, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: As war takes her father, then makes home dangerous, a girl escapes with her mother and brother by night, seeking safety in a faraway place.<\/p>\n By car, on foot, by bicycle, boat, and train – the small family crosses borders as they travel onward and onward, their luggage growing smaller, their money dwindling, yet their hope growing as they get nearer and nearer their destination.<\/p>\n The girl sees her mother’s strength (but not her nightly hidden tears), tells her brother stories about imagined monsters beneath the rough seas and dreamed-of fairies in their new land who “give us magic spells to end the war” as their journey continues.<\/p>\n From dark forests where angry guards loom large to the bright shore where freedom beckons across the sea, The Journey<\/em> picture book is artist\/author Francesca Sanna’s tribute to all refugees and migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" War arrives, we must flee – Where is safety? This powerful picture book by an Italian illustrator and author uses black and sunset-hued colors to chronicle the escape of a young girl, her younger brother, and their mother from the war-torn land “by the sea” where their father disappeared. Ask for The Journey at your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,237,19],"tags":[90,22,7,75,11,20,5,16,18,40,43,49,184,111,31,156,12,21,35,33,6,28,59],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-picturebook","tag-refugees","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TheJourney_coverFeature-364x273.jpg?fit=364%2C273&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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