"
Bold lines,
saturated colors, and expressive faces serve to emphasize the human cost of displacement. Gravel's strength is her ability to humanize this topic.
" –Booklist "
Effective and compassionate.... With simple text and vibrant illustrations, this picture book introduces young readers to refugees as 'people, just like you and me.'"
–School Library Journal "Manages a rather
titanic feat of humanizing an overwhelming humanitarian crisis for young audiences with a direct, no-frills text that avoids euphemisms but maintains accessibility. The illustrations are similarly
kid appropriate." –
Bulletin
