A heartstoppingly beautiful wordless picture book about migration and empathy.
She captures a range of emotions in the faces of the anthropomorphic animals.--The Pirate Tree Blog.
A raw, startling portrait of migration.--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Watanabe captures with grace both dignity and determination, and the brilliance of her art\'s hues against a velvety black backdrop gives the somber spreads great visual power.--Publisher\'s Weekly Rather than protecting children from difficult themes, she uses animals to wordlessly convey the hurt and sacrifice but ultimately underlying hope of such forced journeys.--The Listener, 50 Best Kids\' Books of 2020 I don\'t think I can come up with enough superlatives for Watanabe\'s superb illustrations.
With its stark dearth of color, seen only where necessary, and evocative imagery, the artist\'s pictures make the migrant\'s journey -- distinct yet everyday -- feel palpable.
Praise for Migrants It\'s a rare feat: a wordless picture book in which the absence of text intensifies the stories it tells.
She has led and developed several projects to promote social integration through art, published a number of books and was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Book Fair 2018.
A raw, startling portrait of migration.--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Issa Watanabe was born in Peru in 1980.
Readers can\'t fail to be moved by this deeply emotional and thought-provoking tale.
A perfect book to help teach children about refugees and migration, with humanity, inclusivity and empathy.
The dark pages add weight to the silence of their journey and the individual animals help make the story a universal one.
Children will empathize quickly with the elegantly illustrated animal characters, each of whom have their own identity with details like clothing, color choices and expressions.
And that arriving in a new land may mean burying a portion of the past.
With forceful simplicity, Migrants shows us the courage, loss and underlying hope migration takes.
Through extraordinarily powerful images, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals that leaves behind a leafless forest.
This is the new place.
At last the journey is over and the Migrants arrive.
It takes such courage to reach the end.
Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost.
The Migrants must leave the forest.
A heartstoppingly beautiful wordless picture book about migration and empathy
