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Colours of Home

"A touching and powerful picture book that beautifully articulates kindness and empathy."

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November 2024 Debut of the Month

Narrated by a young girl in gently rhyming and thoughtful text, she tells us that a refugee girl is coming to her home and is told that ‘she won’t understand ‘ when they try to speak to her. But our narrator is undeterred, despite being puzzled by her visitor’s sadness and unresponsiveness.

She comes up with an inspired idea to help them communicate. She draws pictures of her life and friends and when her visitor, Ana, starts to draw her life, Olive understands just why she is so sad.

This is a powerful tool for explaining to young children just what it would be like to be driven from home by ‘soldiers and missiles and tanks in a line’. Using colour very skilfully we see the gradual transformation that small acts of kindness and empathy can bring. The girls become friends, learning words from each other’s home language and Olive organises a video chat with Ana’s family, so she starts to feel better and her colours are restored.

We see the power of paying forward kindness too, because Ana is the first to welcome and greet a new boy at school who arrives as grey and sad as she had been. ‘So she knows what to do, how to help him feel safe’ Another subtle and affecting touch is Olive’s realisation of what the experience of sharing her home with Ana has brought to her. ‘She was just a stranger, and now she’s a friend. I’m thankful she’s here, for the joy that she brings me’ An absolute must for any empathy collections.

Joy Court

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