February 8th, 2017
“In Suzanne Del Rizzo’s picture book, My Beautiful Birds, a young Syrian boy is forced to leave his wartorn home and make the long journey to the relative safety of a refugee camp. The story is enlivened by Del Rizzo’s plasticine illustrations with their rich purple and golden hues. Of all the things that Sami has […]
Posted in My Beautiful Birds
February 8th, 2017
“Coming to shelves in March is Suzanne Del Rizzo’s My Beautiful Birds (Pajama Press), a new book specifically about Syrian refugees. Rendered in bright and textured polymer clay and acrylic, it’s the story of a boy named Sami, leaving his Syrian home (with a sky full of smoke) to escape war…. Del Rizzo writes in an arresting first-person, […]
Posted in My Beautiful Birds
January 27th, 2017
On Multicultural Children’s Book Day we are pleased to celebrate books written by or in collaboration with people of various cultures. Knowing this collection should be larger, we encourage submissions from authors and illustrators from every background. This is the fourth year running for Multicultural Children’s Book Day mission is to raise awareness for the […]
Posted in Adrift at Sea, Last Airlift, Moon at Nine, Next Round, One Step at a Time, Peach Girl
