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Indlæser... Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World)af Henriqueta Cristina
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Exiled from their homeland, a young girl and her entire family are unhappy about the monochrome sweaters all children wear until Mom decides to make a change. Includes facts about Portugal's history and government, about Amnesty International, and the text of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No library descriptions found. |
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Originally published in Portuguese as Com 3 novelos (o mundo dá muitas voltas), and translated into English by young adult novelist Lyn Miller-Lachmann for the Brooklyn-based Enchanted Lion Books, Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World) pairs a simple but thought-provoking text from Cristina with striking artwork from illustrator Yara Kono. The English edition (I'm not sure about the original Portuguese) is published in conjunction with Amnesty International, and there is a forward from Cynthia Gabriel Walsh, of Amnesty International USA, as well the complete text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the rear of the book. A brief afterword from the author explains that the story here is based on the experiences of a real family, who fled Portugal in the 1960s, eventually settling in Czechoslovakia, where they participated in the Prague Spring in 1968. I thought that this was fascinating, as it highlights (as does the story), that both Communinist and non-Communist Europe at that time had a long way to go to achieve freedom and democracy, and that one can flee one type of oppression, only to discover another. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories about the refugee experience, and about human rights. ( )