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Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home - Hardcover

by Zahra Marwan
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Zahra MarwanAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2022-03-29Pages:48
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN-13:9781547606511ISBN-10:1547606517UPC:9781547606511Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Social Topics, Biography & Autobiography, People & PlacesBook Topic:Emigration & Immigration, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United StatesAward:2023 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Honor Book - New Illustrator AwardSize:10.10 x 10.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCGZRVYW64

A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book
One of NPR's Best Books of 2022
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2022
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022
The Society of Illustrators' Dilys Evans Founders Award Winner 2022
Zahra Marwan is a recipient of the United Nations Minority Artist Award on Statelessness

An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States.

Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again--and what about the people she will leave behind? But when she and her family arrive in a new desert, she's surprised to find magic all around her. Home might not be as far away as she thought it would be.

With spare, moving text and vivid artwork, Zahra Marwan tells the true story of her and her family's immigration from Kuwait, where they were considered stateless, to New Mexico, where together they made a new home.

"Utterly original and enjoyable from start to finish." --Betsy Bird, librarian, book critic, and author of Long Road to the Circus
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN-13:9781547606511ISBN-10:1547606517UPC:9781547606511Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Social Topics, Biography & Autobiography, People & PlacesBook Topic:Emigration & Immigration, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United StatesAward:2023 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Honor Book - New Illustrator AwardSize:10.10 x 10.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCGZRVYW64

Zahra Marwan grew up in two deserts -- one close to the sea in Kuwait, the other close to the mountains in New Mexico. She is a fine artist who exhibits extensively and has won international awards and fellowships, including the SCBWI Mentorship Award. She studied the visual arts in France and currently lives in the Barelas neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
zahramarwan.com
@two_desert


Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Awards

🏆 2023 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Honor Book - New Illustrator Award

Contributor(s)

Zahra Marwan

Author

Zahra Marwan

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