Day War Came

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee.

The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep.

Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies's text combines with Rebecca Cobb's expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.

O naratiune emotionanta, poetica si ilustratii prietenoase cu copiii urmeaza calatoria sfasietoare, in cele din urma, plina de speranta a unei fetite care este fortata sa devina refugiata. In ziua in care a venit razboiul erau flori pe pervazul ferestrei si tatal meu mi-a cantat fratele mic inapoi in somn. Imaginati-va daca, intr-o zi obisnuita, dupa o dimineata de studiu a mormolocilor si a desenat pasari la scoala, razboiul a venit in orasul dvs. si l-a transformat in moloz.