Monday 19 June 2023

REFUGEE WEEK

 

REFUGEE WEEK

19th – 25th June


Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.

The theme this year is Compassion.

The National Literacy Trust as part of the

GET ISLINGTON READING project

have invited our children in Years 1 & 2 to a free

Virtual Author Event

Monday 19th June

A Child Like You: online storytelling and drawing session with author

Na’ima B Roberts

& illustrator

Nadine Kaadan

This remarkable book

A Child Like You

Centres on the experiences of real-life activists and campaigners, explaining how these children demonstrated courage, determination and hope in the face of challenges.

Books in Library


We will be sharing a selection of these books with children during this week’s library sessions.

On the Move: Poems About Migration – Michael Rosen

Kind: A Book about kindness – Axel Scheffler

All are welcome – Alexandra Penfold

Refugee – Alan Gratz

The Windrush Child – Benjamin Zephaniah

Paddington – Michael Bond

The Proudest Blue: the Story of Hijab and Family – Ibtihaj Muhammad

My World Your World – Melanie Walsh

Refugees and Homelands – Louise Spilsbury & Toby Newsome

Here we are – Oliver Jeffers

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