Resource Archive
posted on 25 Jan 2016
A selection of recommended books for children that include stories about asylum seekers and refugees from around the world
Picture books (not necessarily aimed at young children)
· Azzi in Between by Sarah Garland
· Blue Penguin by Petr Horacek
· Dreams of Freedom in association with Amnesty International
· For Every Child in association with Unicef
· Kasia’s Surpise by Stella Gurney
· Refuge by Anne Booth & Samuel Usher
· The Arrival by Shaun Tan
· The Colour of Home by Mary Hoffman
· The Island by Armin Greder
· The Silence Seeker by Ben Morley
· We Are All Born Free in association with Amnesty International
Suitable for Key stages One and Two readers (and above)
· My Name is Parvana (2)by Deborah Ellis
· Parvana’s Journey (1) by Deborah Ellis
· Night Flight by Michaela Morgan
· Mud City (3) by Deborah Ellis
· Paddington Here and Now by Michael Bond
· Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
· The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
· Under the skin by Catherine McPhail
Older/ more able readers
· A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk by Jan Coates
· A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
· After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross
· A Strange Land by Alan Gibbons
· Asylum by Rachel Anderson
· Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
· Boy Overboard (1) by Morris Gleitzman
· Close to the Wind by Jon Walter
· G by Gaye Hicyilmaz
· Girl Undergirl in Redround (2) by Morris Gleitzman
· Girl with a White Dog by Anne Booth
· Hidden by Miriam Halahmy
· Home is a Place Called Nowhere by Leon Rosselson
· I am David by Anne Holm
· Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
· Little Soldier by Bernard Ashley
· Looking at the Stars by Jo Cotterill
· Mahtab’s Story by Libby Gleeson
· Now Is The Time For Running by Michael Williams
· Once by Morris Gleitzman
· Oranges in No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Laird
· Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian
· Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
· Ruby Tanya by Robert Swindells
· Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
· The Dark Beneath by Alan Gibbons
· The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman
· The Other Side of Truth (1) by Beverley Naidoo
· Web of Lies (2) by Beverley Naidoo
· When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
· Where I Belong by Gillian Cross
For further titles on this subject and reviews see:
http://www.letterboxlibrary.com/acatalog/Refugees_and_Migration.html
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/search/?query=refugees
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/search/node/asylum%20seekers
http://www.letterpressproject.co.uk/inspiring-young-readers