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The Sky of Afghanistan

Ana Eulate author Jon Brokenbrow translator Sonja Wimmer illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cuento de Luz SL

Published:13th Sep '12

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  • Advance review copies available for press and reviewers
  • Widespread media coverage anticipated
  • Promotions via media advertising
  • Submission to relevant awards
  • Lexile Levelling, Guided Reading Levels provided
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  • Gold Medal at the 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. With lyrical, stirring text and stunning, evocative artwork, The Sky of Afghanistan offers a moving ode to dreamers, to peace, and to finding hope for ending war once and for all.

    In a country ravaged by war, a girl looks up at the sky, closes her eyes and her imagination begins to soar, far away from hatred, from sadness. She flies up high, high above into the sky, until she envisions that long-awaited dream in which we all hold hands. She invites us to dream with her so that in her country, Afghanistan, peace may reign forever. Her dream is directed to all regions, she enters homes, homes, families, hearts.

    An ode to peace that reminds us of the need to be supportive and tolerant.

    "Ardent advocacy for Afghan peace." —Kirkus Reviews

    "In this glowing picture book translated from Spanish, a small Afghan girl dreams of peace. (…) True to a child’s experience, the story’s power is in the contrasts, and young children will recognize that the basic things they take for granted are missing in others’ daily lives." —Booklist

    • Winner of Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2012 (United States)

    ISBN: 9788415503040

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 396g

    24 pages