Description: When Sofia has to leave home behind, a cloud like a dove keeps watch over her journey.
Sofia's home isn't safe anymore. She and her family travel far and long, over the land and under the stars. They walk away from all they know, everything they love, except each other. Sofia isn't sure if she can be brave. But every time she looks up, she sees a dove in the clouds, watching over her. Sometimes it takes a lot of looking, and sometimes crowded tents nearly block her view. But the dove is always there with her, all the way to a possible new home. Carin Berger (In the Night Garden, The Little Yellow Leaf) uses her collage technique to bring soft splendor to this widely applicable story of displacement and hope. In a time when ever more families face similar circumstances worldwide, Sofia's Journey is a vital empathy read and a soothing anchor in the storm.Review Quotes: Berger renders a family's migration journey with delicate consideration in this quietly hopeful story. . . . In distinctive collages, multicolored found papers mingle with intricate pochoir for a highly texturized three-dimensional effect. Spotting the child's cloud dove and other skyward objects adds an interactive element across this uplifting meditation on home's anchoring aspects.
--Publishers Weekly
--School Library Journal The story is moving, and Berger's mixed-media art is breathtaking. Delicate images are set on lushly textured expanses. . . . A touching tale of migration. . . .
--Kirkus Reviews Berger's elegant artwork uses collage, found ephemera, pochoir and paint to create many textures, patterns, and moods. A reassuring picture book about finding hope and new beginnings.
--Booklist Berger adeptly uses cloud formations to convey Sofia's experience of displacement, crafting a sky that indicates fear, hope, patience, and, at last, safety. Paper ephemera, detailed stenciling, and airy paint work provide depth and texture. Resonant and heartening.
--The Horn Book