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‘That the entire world is full of hearts searching for a place to call home. But refugees are different, because they don’t just look for a home. They look for peace too. And because of that, they possess the most special hearts anyone could ever have.’
The Boy at the Back of the Class Illustration /Text 2018 The Boy At The Back Of The Class is a children’s novel written from the perspective of nine year old Alexa about Ahmet, a Syrian refugee boy, who joins her class. The Illustrations on display are the pictures Ahmet presents to his class to explain his story. On first sight the pictures are sweet and childlike in design but what they depict is jarring, as we start to understand Ahmet’s dangerous flight from Syria. Illustrator Pippa Curnick has carefully captured the essence of childhood understanding in his drawings whilst simultaneously given Ahmet the opportunity to tell his truth. As the viewer, with our knowledge and experience we can contextualise his story. Onjali Q Rauf’s novel is a heartwarming tale about children trying to make sense of the refugee crisis and holding up friendship and kindness as a response above all else. Rauf cites 11 am on the 2nd September 2015 as the point in which she started considering the refugee crisis. This was the morning the story broke globally of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a refugee boy who died trying to cross the Aegean Sea with his family and a beginning to her response to the crisis. Onjali Q Rauf Onjali Q Rauf is the founder of Making Herstory, an organisation which encourages men, women and children to work together to create a fairer and more equal world for women and girls everywhere. In her spare time, she delivers emergency aid packages to refugee families living in Calais and Dunkirk, and can often be found with her head buried in a book at the local bookshop. “The Boy at the Back of the Class is her first novel and was winner of the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award, and overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019. She has written for The Guardian, and is also a contributor to the BBC Radio 2 programme Pause For Thought. www.makingherstory.org.uk Pippa Curnick Pippa Curnick graduated with a first-class degree in illustration from the University of Derby and has several years’ experience in picture book design for major children’s publisher Alison Green Books. She lives in Leicestershire with her partner, Ben, her two children and Sprinkles the bunny. www.pippacurnick.com
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