{"product_id":"story-boat-9780735263598","title":"Story Boat","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen you have to leave behind almost everything you know, where can you call home? Sometimes home is simply where we are: here. An imaginative, lyrical, unforgettable picture book about the migrant experience through a child's eyes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKYO MACLEAR\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, novelist, and children's author. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages and published in over twenty countries. She has earned multiple awards, including a Governor General's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award, a USBBY Outstanding International Book (\u003ci\u003eVirginia Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e), the IODE Ontario Jean Throop Award (\u003ci\u003eYak and Dove\u003c\/i\u003e), the Trillium Book Award (\u003ci\u003eBirds Art Life\u003c\/i\u003e), and the White Raven Award (\u003ci\u003eVirginia Wolf \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Liszts\u003c\/i\u003e). She has received nominations for the Kate Greenaway Medal (\u003ci\u003eThe Liszts\u003c\/i\u003e), several Forest of Reading nominations, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award (\u003ci\u003eThe Good Little Book\u003c\/i\u003e), and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize (\u003ci\u003eBirds Art Life\u003c\/i\u003e). Kyo holds a doctorate in environmental humanities and is on faculty at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA and the Humber School for Writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRASHIN KHEIRIYEH\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally recognized, award-winning illustrator\/author, animation director, and painter who has published over seventy children's books in countries such as the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain, South Korea, China, Brazil, India, and Iran. She has received fifty national and international awards\u003cbr\u003efor the books and animations including recently being winner of the 2017 Sendak Fellow Award. She was also the winner of the Bologna Book Fair six times and the winner of Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia. She has an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Illustration and an MFA in Graphic Design from Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. She also studied at School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. She is a lecturer at Department of Art, University of Maryland and has contributed illustrations to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e Google, and many other publication houses around the world.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tundra Books (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514343559442,"sku":"9780735263598","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5cbdd534-4168-4ce4-8299-5ecbc1b068b1.jpg?v=1730980237","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/story-boat-9780735263598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}