"Both Watts and Shoemaker have created a story that really manages to convey the fear, the tension, the unease of a refugee arriving in a country where she is not really welcomed by everyone, and even looked down on by some.Hopefully, this is a book that will get young readers thinking." She teaches children’s illustration at Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shoemaker is the illustrator of many books for children, among them A Telling Time, My Animal Friends and Floyd the Flamingo and His Flock of Friends for Tradewind Books. Recent publications include Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People, compiled with Lillian Boraks-Nemetz (Tundra Books). Irene is a Lifetime Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Awards include a Vancouver Theatre Alliance Jessie Richardson for Goodbye Marianne (Scirocco Drama and Anchorage Press, U.S.) the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People the Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award (Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards, 19) the Government of Alberta Achievement Award for Outstanding Service to Drama. Her plays for young audiences have been widely produced.
She is a writer/playwright, theatre director, and educator. Watts came to Canada from Britain, where she had arrived thirty years earlier from Germany, via Kindertransport. "Based on the author's novel Remember Me, this graphic novel captures the melancholy nature of the story-the isolation from, and longing for, the familiar comforts of home and family-through Shoemaker's limited-palette, charcoal-hued illustrations.In 1968 Irene N. "Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope."- "Publishers Weekly" ★ "Author and illustrator show their collaborative finesse in a wonderfully rendered marriage between text and art.A book that invites close reading, this will spark interest in the plight of all refugees."- "Kirkus Reviews, starred review" "This beautifully rendered graphic novel.would make a gentle, highly visual addition to Holocaust curriculum, or it could be an excellent tool for introducing xenophobia and refugee crisis to upper-elementary and middle-grade readers."- "Booklist" "Both Watts and Shoemaker have created a story that really manages to convey the fear, the tension, the unease of a refugee arriving in a country where she is not really welcomed by everyone, and even looked down on by some.Hopefully, this is a book that will get young readers thinking."- "The Children's War Blog" "Black-and-white pencil sketches reflect a mood of loneliness and the bleakness of the time period.The glossary.does a great job of explaining terms at an age-appropriate level without shying away from harsh truths."- "School Library Journal"
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