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Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy''s Story of Survival

Paperback | English

By (author): Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Illustrated by: Brian Deines

Now in paperback, the award-winning first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family''s perilous escape from Vietnam

It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters dodged the bullets of Vietnam''s military police for the perilous chance of boarding that boat.

Told to multi-award-winning author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and illustrated by the celebrated Brian Deines, Tuan''s story has become Adrift At Sea, the first picture book to describe the flight of Vietnam''s Boat People refugees.

Illustrated with sweeping oil paintings and complete with an expansive Author''s Note, this non-fiction picture book returns in a paperback edition as the world continues to grapple with the plight of refugees risking all for the chance at safety and a new life.

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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 279 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Pajama Press
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 7-9
  • ISBN13: 9781772781199

About Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch''s award-winning books for young people include Last Airlift a Red Cedar Information Book Award winner and OLA Red Maple Honour Book. Its sequel One Step at a Time won the OLA Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Her YA novel Dance of the Banished was a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2015. In 2008 in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the development Ukraine''s culture Marsha was awarded the Order of Princess Olha. She lives in Brantford Ontario. Tuan Ho escaped Vietnam at age six in 1981 among thousands of other boat people refugees. Through author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch in the picture book Adrift at Sea he has told the story of how he his mother and two sisters survived five days adrift on the ocean with dwindling fresh water before being rescued by a U.S. aircraft carrier. Joining the rest of his family in Canada he went on to attend school in Toronto and is now an accomplished physiotherapist. Tuan and his wife Edae have two young daughters Madeline and Emily. Brian Deines is a fine artist and the award-winning illustrator of over 20 children''s books including A Bear in War Bear on the Homefront The Road to Afghanistan and On a Snowy Night. Dragonfly Kites part of a trilogy written by Tomson Highway was shortlisted for the Governor General''s Award for illustration and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children''s Book Award. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art Brian lives in Toronto Ontario with his wife and daughter.

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