Refugee is a marvellous picture book to raise the awareness of the whole family about the plight of refugees, perfect for understanding their painful reality and to explain it to young children.

“Why have they woken me up in such a rush? It is still dark outside. We leave carrying only a few things. We are not going for a day out. Everyone looks scared and sad. I’m scared. Dad holds my hand tightly. It hurts. I feel like crying. But I don’t. Where are we going? Why are we running away?”

These are some of the questions posed by the protagonist of this storywith so much reality in it. Author Tessa Julià and illustrator Anna Gordillo have joined forces to present us with a beautiful yet unsettling picturebook about the crude reality faced by refugees, but offering a glimmer of hope.

Part of the profits generated from the sales of the Spanish and Catalan editions will be donated to Open Arms, a non governmental organisation dedicated to helping refugees.