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Four Feet, Two Sandals.


Four Feet, Two Sandals

Karen Lynn Williams Lynn Williams can refer to:
  • Lynn R. Williams, Canadian labor leader and President of United Steelworkers of America
  • Lynn Williams (athlete), Canadian 1984 Olympic bronze medalist in 3,000 metres
 & Khadra Mohammed, authors

Doug Chayka, illustrator

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
 

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9780802852960, $17.00 www.eerdmans.com/youngreaders 1-800-253-7521

Based on co-author Khadra Mohammed's experiences with refugees in Peshawar, a city on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Four Feet, Two Sandals is a children's picturebook about ten-year-old Lina and her young friend who each discover one of a wonderful pair of sandals. Together they must solve the problem of how to share one pair of sandles between four feet! As they wait and hope for their names to appear on a list for a new home, the sandals become a symbol of their fast friendship--a bond that will endure even when one of them finally has the opportunity to escape the hard conditions and live in a new land. The broad brush strokes Brush Strokes was an Esmonde and Larbey sitcom set in South London and depicting the (mostly) amorous adventures of a good-looking, wisecracking house painter, Jacko (Karl Howman).  of illustrator Doug Chayka draw the reader in to the harsh and barren bar·ren
adj.
1. Not producing offspring.

2. Incapable of producing offspring.



barren

see infertility.

barren adjective Gynecology Infertile, sterile, fruitless, inconceivable
 world of the refugees, where positive human relationships are an particular treasure amid the daily difficulty of survival. A thoughtful yet serious picturebook, highly recommended for children's public library and personal collections.
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