Akin Duzakin

The Syrian refugee crisis is the largest in the world, with over 12 million displaced people. As an elementary school librarian in a diverse city, I would have loved to read this book to every class. I appreciated that the story wasn’t violent yet managed to show what the boy and his family had to escape. I think any aged child from any background could care about this Syrian boy as I did.

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An introspective book that will provoke reflection, particularly in sensitive and observant readers of a philosophical nature. A dark-haired, brown-eyed child with light brown skin, clad simply in a T-shirt and jeans, ponders deep existential questions, wondering what life would have been like in a variety of different settings.