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What You Need to Be Warm

by Neil Gaiman
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A fantastic Christmas present for Neil Gaiman super fans

** AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS **

Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.

In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in aid of the UNHCR's winter appeal. It revealed our shared desire to feel safe, welcome and warm in a world that can often feel frightening and lonely.
Sales of every copy of this book will help support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which helps forcibly displaced communities and stateless people across the world.
Now publishing in hardback and illustrated by a group of artists from around the world, What You Need to Be Warm is an exploration of displacement and flight from conflict through the objects and memories that represent warmth. It is about our right to feel safe, whoever we are and wherever we are from. It is about holding out a hand to welcome those who find themselves far from home.

Featuring new, original illustrations from Chris Riddell, Benji Davies, Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan, Daniel Egnéus, Pam Smy, Petr Horácek, Beth Suzanna, Bagram Ibatoulline, Marie-Alice Harel, Majid Adin and Richard Jones, with a thought-provoking cover from Oliver Jeffers.

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  • Release date

    October 26, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781526668424

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 14, 2023
      Aiming to raise money to help refugees caught in the cold of winter, Newbery Medalist and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ambassador Gaiman crowdsourced memories of warmth online, weaving them into an evocative poem that speaks to experiences of comfort. The resultant work is illustrated in this volume by 13 collaborators, some emigres themselves, in spreads that share a grayscale palette accented with fiery orange. Accompanying lines about garments (“Wear a scarf./ Wear a coat./ Wear a sweater./ Wear socks”), Beth Suzanna draws adults helping a child into cozy clothes. Marie-Alice Harel imagines a mound of sleeping creatures gathered around a dove and encircled by a slumbering dragon (“An infant as/ she sleeps between us./ A tumble of dogs,/ a kindle of cats”), while Bagram Ibatouilline’s stark, photorealistic image shows a family huddled by a fire in a desert, and Benji Davies’s inky fantasy forefronts a child crossing the sea in a boat guarded by two mermaids. Envisioning warmth as both a baked potato and a blanket knit by a loved one, the thoughtful free verse lines build to a powerful final expression: “You have the right to be here.” Figures are depicted with a variety of skin tones. Ages 4–8.

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  • OverDrive Read

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  • English

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