Julie Sedivy
Julie Sedivy is a citizen of three countries. At the age of two, she left the country of her birth, (Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) soon after the Soviet invasion of 1968. She has made her home in many places, including Montreal, upstate New York, Providence in Rhode Island and Calgary, where she currently lives and writes. She has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary, and is the author of several nonfiction books, including Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love. She is especially interested in the complicated and beautiful lives of people who are not sure where to call home.
Books by Julie Sedivy
In this moving picture book, Ayah, who has always lived in a refugee camp, is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. When she falls asleep and dreams of a swallow who shows her there are places without fences, and without war, she realizes she wants to be free like him.
Hardcover
9781459843646
9781459843646
$21.95
Ebook
9781459843660
9781459843660
$17.99
L’histoire émouvante d’Ayah, une fillette qui a toujours vécu dans un camp de réfugiés et qui se demande ce qu’elle veut faire quand elle sera grande. Un jour, elle rêve d’une hirondelle qui lui montre qu’il existe des pays sans barrières et sans guerre. Elle se rend alors compte que ce qu’elle souhaite, c’est être libre comme l’oiseau.
Hardcover
9781459845893
9781459845893
$21.95
Ebook
9781459845916
9781459845916
$17.99
