The Day War Came

A powerful and necessary picture book by Nicola Davies and Rebecca Cobb? ? the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known.

Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long and difficult journey ? all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very precious …

When the government refused to allow 3000 child refugees to enter this country in 2016, Nicola Davies was so angry she wrote a poem. It started a campaign for which artists contributed drawings of chairs, symbolising a seat in a classroom, education, kindness, the hope of a future. The poem has become this book, movingly illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, which should prove a powerful aid for explaining the ongoing refugee crisis to younger readers.

?1 from every copy sold goes to the charity Help Refugees ? find out more about their wonderful work at their website, helprefugees.org.