Sugar in Milk

Rating: 5 leaves out of 5
Characters: 5/5
Cover: 5/5
Story: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Genre: Children/Picture Book
Type: Book
Worth?: Yeah!

From the beautiful art work to the lesson it brought this book was a lovely read. A young child moving away from her parents and home to a new country with her aunt and uncle she struggles to make it home. The story her aunt tells is sweet as sugar but powerful. I loved it.

“Everybody knows what a hug means, and all people speak the language of laughter. So, no one had a problem understanding what the other meant.”

What a gorgeous book in every sense. The illustrations, the message, the connections between refugees displaced long ago and those displaced now. This is a quietly powerful yet resolute story about the responsibility people have to welcome others when they have nowhere else to go. It is a new favorite of mine.