THE GIRL AT THE FRONT OF THE CLASS PB – ONJALI Q. RAUF-PIPPA CURNICK

From Onjali Q. Rauf, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, and award-winning illustrator Pippa Curnick, comes a moving picture book that helps young children understand and empathise with the refugee crisis, and shows the power that friendship, kindness and generosity can have. There s a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger s, skin as pale as a glass of milk, and hair as shiny as a mirror. I d like to be her friend. But she never plays with me in the playground or makes sandcastles in the sandpit. She s doesn t even like Story Time. The cleverest people I know say that the new girl is sad because she had to leave her home, her family, her school, her toys, her books and all her friends too. But I ve got an idea! There is something I can do to make her feel better when she s missing everything she s left behind …