Palm trees, architecture, dress, and Arabic writing on the flag convey a sense of place and culture. The artist uses color to evoke mood, moving from a yellow sky to orange, to deep maroon during the bombing, and then blues and pinks with doves flying aloft as the librarian hopes for a brighter future. It is in the illustrations, executed in acrylic and ink in her signature style, that Winter suggests the impending horror. Dewan, Winter artfully achieves a fine balance between honestly describing the casualties of war and not making the story too frightening for young children. In telling this story, first reported in the New York Timeson July 27, 2003, by Shaila K. When the fighting moved on, this courageous woman transferred the 30,000 volumes to her and her friends' homes to await peace and the rebuilding of a new library. In spite of the government's refusal to help, she moved the books into a nearby restaurant only nine days before the library burned to the ground. Grade 2-4 - When war seemed imminent, Alia Muhammad Baker, chief librarian of Basra's Central Library, was determined to protect the library's holdings.
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