A book that invites close reading, this will spark interest in the plight of all refugees.” Starred Review, Kirkus Magazine “Author and illustrator show their collaborative finesse in a wonderfully rendered marriage between text and art. The Award is given by Glowinsky Family Foundation. Then as today the refugee experience takes its toll on those who flee their homes because of persecution.Īwarded the 2017, VINE Award presented by the Koffler Centre, Toronto, Ontario, For Jewish literature for Children and Young Adults. However her hope and resilience is finally rewarded. She must cope with new problems both in and out of school. World War 2 breaks out in September, 1939, and Marianne is evacuated to South Wales. Her snobbish English foster mother, is unsympathetic to the young foreigner. It is twenty four hours since she said good-bye to her mother, she does not know if she will ever see her again. Eleven year old Marianne Kohn is amongst them. On board the Rescue train are over two hundred children at risk from the Nazis. It is December, 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport arrives in England from Berlin. Western Canadian Jewish Berkowitz Award for children and Youth, 2018. SEEKING REFUGE is loosely based on the play Remember Me, Playwrights Guild of Canada and the novel of the same name, Tundra books. Shoemaker sequel to the Graphic novel, GOOD- BYE MARIANNE, Tundra books. November 2016, published by Tradewind Books. See my publisher's websites: and SEEKING REFUGE ,
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