Award-winning children’s author, Elizabeth Laird, collaborated with our team to develop “A Refugee’s Story” (an abridged version can be downloaded for FREE with the full-length story coming in Spring 2022). We asked her to share her experiences of helping child refugees, as well as teachers in countries where the school system is not tailored for children with special needs. Elizabeth also explains how teachers and parents can potentially use this powerful new story to help children understand what refugees have been through and how we can all help to make refugees feel safe and welcome.

By Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins, founder and Chair of Books Beyond Words

We have all watched reports from Afghanistan in recent days with a growing sense of horror as we have seen people fleeing for their lives. Terrified, confused, and often hungry, having left everything behind to try and save their families.