World Refugee Day is a United Nations initiative designed to increase public awareness about the forcibly displaced and stateless by telling their powerful personal stories. In an effort to promote this United Nations initiative, Wollongong Library will be attaching a number of suggested titles available to assist children in understanding of the plight of refugees.
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Monday, April 16, 2012

DO 1 THING - Brothers in Hope - Suggested Reading for Children


Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. It was published by Lee & Low Books, New York, USA (2005). It is a picture book for children aged 7 and up. It is the story of how eight year old Garang Deng, in the mid 1980’s, leads and travels with 30,000 other Sudanese refugee boys seeking a safe refuge in Ethiopia. When war strikes Ethiopia they again move to Kenya and how some of these boys are eventually resettled in America.

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