Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home
A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book

One of NPR's Best Books of 2022

Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2022

A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022

A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2022 Blue Ribbon Book

The Society of Illustrators' Dilys Evans Founders Award Winner 2022

A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year

Zahra Marwan is a recipient of the United Nations Minority Artist Award on Statelessness

An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States.

Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again—and what about the people she will leave behind? But when she and her family arrive in a new desert, she's surprised to find magic all around her. Home might not be as far away as she thought it would be.

With spare, moving text and vivid artwork, Zahra Marwan tells the true story of her and her family's immigration from Kuwait, where they were considered stateless, to New Mexico, where together they made a new home.

"Utterly original and enjoyable from start to finish." -Betsy Bird, librarian, book critic, and author of Long Road to the Circus

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Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home
A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book

One of NPR's Best Books of 2022

Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2022

A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022

A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2022 Blue Ribbon Book

The Society of Illustrators' Dilys Evans Founders Award Winner 2022

A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year

Zahra Marwan is a recipient of the United Nations Minority Artist Award on Statelessness

An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States.

Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again—and what about the people she will leave behind? But when she and her family arrive in a new desert, she's surprised to find magic all around her. Home might not be as far away as she thought it would be.

With spare, moving text and vivid artwork, Zahra Marwan tells the true story of her and her family's immigration from Kuwait, where they were considered stateless, to New Mexico, where together they made a new home.

"Utterly original and enjoyable from start to finish." -Betsy Bird, librarian, book critic, and author of Long Road to the Circus

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Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

by Zahra Marwan
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

by Zahra Marwan

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Zahra Marwan's debut is the must-read story of her family's immigration from Kuwait to the United States. In a situation many are familiar with, Zahra beautifully depicts her homeland, the journey that followed her forced exile and the new life she adapted to in America. Perfect for helping children understand the ever-changing world around them and the dramatic events that have made stories like Zahra's commonplace.

A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book

One of NPR's Best Books of 2022

Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2022

A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022

A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2022 Blue Ribbon Book

The Society of Illustrators' Dilys Evans Founders Award Winner 2022

A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year

Zahra Marwan is a recipient of the United Nations Minority Artist Award on Statelessness

An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States.

Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again—and what about the people she will leave behind? But when she and her family arrive in a new desert, she's surprised to find magic all around her. Home might not be as far away as she thought it would be.

With spare, moving text and vivid artwork, Zahra Marwan tells the true story of her and her family's immigration from Kuwait, where they were considered stateless, to New Mexico, where together they made a new home.

"Utterly original and enjoyable from start to finish." -Betsy Bird, librarian, book critic, and author of Long Road to the Circus


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781547606511
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 03/29/2022
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 10.30(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 500L (what's this?)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Zahra Marwan grew up in two deserts: one close to the sea in Kuwait, the other close to the mountains in New Mexico. She is a fine artist who exhibits extensively and has won international awards and fellowships, including a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book, NPR Best Books of 2022, an Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Illustration, a Dilys Evans Founders Award from the Society of Illustrators, and more. She studied the visual arts in France and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she keeps a small studio at the Harwood Art Center.
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