Here is a cup that the children sip from every morning. Maclear says she tried to build a pattern into the book to give children a "thread of continuity." The family in the book is in the midst of an ongoing journey - "here" is home, but "here" keeps changing. The family in Story Boat is leaving an unspecified place and heading to an unknown destination. When I started illustrating this book in my studio, I kept thinking. "That's the girl who likes to draw and has a wild imagination. "I thought, oh, that's me," Kheiriyeh says. So Kyo Maclear's story, about a little girl and her family who are forced to leave home, felt very familiar. Kheiriyeh's family fled Iran after war broke out in 1980 - she remembers what it was like to leave everything behind, to escape to a safer place. When illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh first read the manuscript of Story Boat, she recognized the children in it immediately.
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