Wisp : a story of hope / Zana Fraillon & Grahame Baker-Smith.

By:

Fraillon, Zana [author.]

Contributor(s):

Baker-Smith, Grahame [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Orchard Books, 2018Description: 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781408350119 (paperback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

23 823.4 FRA 014656

Summary: Idris is a child refugee, born into a world of tents and fences. He has known no other life than this. He has no memories of the world outside. Then the Wisp arrives, floating in on the evening breeze. Everyone who holds it finds their memories reawakened, their hopes of freedom reborn. But what about Idris, who has no memories? What will happen when he holds the magical Wisp? Storytelling and imagination have the power to offer hope in this extraordinary picture book from the Amnesty CILIP Honour-winning author of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator Grahame Baker Smith.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	823.4 FRA 014656 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014656

"From the winner of the Amnesty CILIP honour" -- cover.

For pre-school age.

Idris is a child refugee, born into a world of tents and fences. He has known no other life than this. He has no memories of the world outside. Then the Wisp arrives, floating in on the evening breeze. Everyone who holds it finds their memories reawakened, their hopes of freedom reborn. But what about Idris, who has no memories? What will happen when he holds the magical Wisp? Storytelling and imagination have the power to offer hope in this extraordinary picture book from the Amnesty CILIP Honour-winning author of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator Grahame Baker Smith.

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