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Children's Books2024 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Something Lost and Something Found

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

A powerful and highly topical picture book about war, flight, change and reconciliation. In the beginning, there is a house with blue window frames. There is a mum and a dad, a cushion, a grandmother, a school, a cat on the step and a secret chocolate drawer. But there is also war. There are bombs and uniforms and grownups talking in whispers, and the war will change everything. Soon almost everything is gone. The chocolate drawer and the cat, the cushion and Grandmother, the school and even Dad. Now there are new things. There are queues and cold draughts and a house that isn’t a home. There are people who talk strangely and food that tastes weird. But there are also children who play. And a cat on the step who may become a friend. Something Lost and Something Found is a powerful story about having to abandon everything you know and put down new roots in an unfamiliar place. It’s a story that will be a great conversation-starter in schools and kindergartens, where many people meet children who have been forced to flee from war and unrest in their homelands. «... the picture book Something Lost and Something Found is a hopeful, empathetic and very aesthetically driven story. The author does not dwell on the act of fleeing ..., but also thematises the way forward, after one has arrived in a safe place. How to establish a new everyday life, when your thoughts and memories linger on the past? Fortunately, a lot of good can be rediscovered.»BARNEBOKRITIKK.NO