Apple Cake & Baklava - Softcover

Kathrin Rohmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185077319X ISBN 13: 9781850773191

Publisher: Darf Publishers Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Leila is the new girl in Max's class in rural Germany, and they soon become close friends. She has fled Syria with her family, having left her grandmother and father behind. Her most cherished object is a walnut from her grandmother's garden. Leila is desperately sad when she loses her walnut and, in a failed attempt, sets out to return to Syria.

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Review

Apple Cake and Baklava is a powerful and moving book dealing with asylum, how it feels to be a refugee in a strange country and building new friendships. With an excellent flowing translation from Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, this gentle story cleverly expresses emotion through food. - Outside in World Loss, friendship, and the acceptance that a new life is possible, are at the heart of the book, peppered with stories of baking always a reassuring subject whether it's apple cake, gingerbread or baklava, and even a few recipes at the end of the book. - Jacqueline Rose Bookwitty Apple Cake and Baklava is about approaching and learning about new cultures... capturing the tension of easing into a new place in a tale of kindness and baking. Playing by the Book Loss and longing, exile and grief, and the need to belong somewhere underpin this heartfelt, thoughtful refugee tale. Apple Cake and Baklava is a deeply-affecting and touching debut children s book for older primary and younger middle-school children. Franziska Harvey s gorgeous black-and-white illustrations give added depth to the story. - BookBlast Apple Cake and Baklava is a moving story about otherness, openness and the willingness to come to know one another. NBG A superb, wonderful, moving children s book about home, homesickness, friendship and the unknown. Highly recommended! - Hamburger Morgenpost --Hamburger Morgenpost

Edition details

• Publisher: Darf Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185077319X
• ISBN 13: 9781850773191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159