![]() A powerfully moving, award-winning graphic novel that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants from New. Agent: Susannah Palfrey, Hachette Children’s Group. Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin. Refugees, readers will understand, are not statistics everyone is an individual. Clouds tower above the ocean, and starry skies light the desert. Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels. From the team behind the award-winning Illegal comes an important and. ![]() Rigano brings the brothers’ struggle close, but his magnificent panels include moments of beauty, too. GLOBAL by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin and illustrated by Giovanni Rigano is an. Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano. Water is precious, and Ebo and Kwame endure periods of intense thirst. Punchy dialogue and wistful narration note both Ebo’s poverty and his gifts: optimism (“I’m stronger than I look,” he tells a boss), a talent for singing, and initiative (he parlays a box of wet wipes into cash by selling them one by one). ![]() But in flashbacks, they see Ebo searching for Kwame in a teeming refugee hub in Niger. ![]() It’s clear that he succeeds, because the story opens on a scene of the two brothers drifting without food or water on the ocean. Ebo’s older sister Sisi is already in Europe, and he knows his brother Kwame is headed there, too, so Ebo sets out to find him. This achingly poignant graphic novel by Colfer and Donkin, collaborators on the Artemis Fowl graphic novels, imagines how one Ghanaian orphan ends up adrift in the Mediterranean. ![]()
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