When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves - wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things - a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story - can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell - a story that will carry them perpetually forward.

 

This timely, sensitively told story, written by multiple award-winner Kyo Maclear and illustrated by Sendak Fellowship recipient Rashin Kheiriyeh, introduces very young readers in a gentle, non-frightening and ultimately hopeful way to the current refugee crisis.