C'est quoi, un réfugié?
by Elise Gravel
Un album pour expliquer simplement aux enfants la situation complexe des réfugiés. Qui sont les réfugiés? Pourquoi doivent-ils quitter leur pays? Que viennent-ils faire chez nous? Dans cet album tout à fait d'actualité, Elise Gravel explique de manière simple et claire, ce que ça signifie d'être réfugié. Elle rappelle que toutes ces personnes déracinées sont avant tout des êtres humains comme chacun d'entre nous. Un documentaire accessible qui permet aux enfants de mieux comprendre le monde dans lequel ils vivent.
Published: 2019
Originally written in French
Number of pages: 32
Recommended FSL Programs and Grades
Grade 9 (Core)
Race/Ethnic/Geographic Information
Author: Elise Gravel is a Canadian children's book author and illustrator from Montreal, Quebec
Characters: Mixed representation
Setting: Worldwide
Notes from a teacher-reader
Elise Gravel is well known for her cute comics that try to draw awareness to a range of social experiences and issues.
This novel is about the general experience of refugees. It is not specific to one country or experience. At the end of the novel, a range of children share their specific stories, and there is also a list of famous refugees and their stories (Madeline Albright, Bob Marley, Malala Yousafzai, Abert Einstein, Anne Frank, Luol Deng, Freddie Mercury)
Open French is not an option on the form, but that is the course I used this in.
It would be important to first make sure you assess if this book would be appropriate for your class (can you protect the wellbeing of any students who may have been refugees/ who are refugees).
Explore some specific examples of how Canada has supported / not supported refugees throughout history.
Acknowledge that not all countries offer support and why.
Have students think about humanity and human rights.
Feel free to contact the teacher-reader, Farah All-Shaw, at farah.allishaw@gmail.com if you have questions about this novel.