by Grahame Baker Smith (Illustrator), Grahame Baker Smith (Illustrator), Zana Fraillon (Author), Grahame Baker Smith (Illustrator), Zana Fraillon (Author)
Idris is a child refugee, born into a world of tents and fences. He has known no other life than this. He has no memories of the world outside.
Then the Wisp arrives, floating in on the evening breeze. Everyone who holds it finds their memories reawakened, their hopes of freedom reborn. But what about Idris, who has no memories? What will happen when he holds the magical Wisp?
Storytelling and imagination have the power to offer hope in this extraordinary picture book from the Amnesty CILIP Honour-winning author of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon, and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator Grahame Baker Smith.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published:
ISBN 10: 1408350114
ISBN 13: 9781408350119
Children’s book age: 0-5 Years
Zana Fraillon worked as a primary school teacher before becoming a full-time writer of fiction and picture books for young children. She is the author of The Ones That Disappeared and The Bone Sparrow, which won the Amnesty CILIP Honour 2017, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Book Prize, and has garnered widespread critical acclaim. Zana lives in Victoria, Australia, with her husband and three sons.
Grahame Baker Smith is the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning author-illustrator of FaRther, and the illustrator of the bestselling Leon and the Place Between and Winter's Child. His richly powerful illustrations have also been published by the Folio Society. Grahame lives with his family in Bath.