Description: "How do we speak with our children about wars that took place where generations of our ancestors once called home? How can we explain that those wars continue to reverberate in our lives, many years or even decades after the combat has ended? And why is it so difficult, complicated, and even painful to dream of our return?"--
Review Quotes: "Aching, beautiful, full of lyric and full of love, I Want You to Know has found a way to explain war and diaspora to young readers with simultaneous clarity and gentleness, and enduring hope."
--Safia Elhillo, author of Bright Red Fruit and Home Is Not A Country
--Innosanto Nagara, author of A is for Activist "Oh! This exquisite book! With perfectly paced elegant words, and brilliantly appealing art, it is a book for all who have been separated from lands they called home. It's for children and grandparents and parents and teachers, honoring ancestors, stories, memory, the difficulty of exile, the power of remembering and passing on tradition and beauty. War is never what anyone was born for. I love it so much and am hereby ordering ten!"--Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Habibi and The Tiny Journalist