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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

"What You Need to Be Warm"

 "What You Need to Be Warm"

English and Arabic 

 "What You Need to Be Warm"


 "What You Need to Be Warm"

by Neil Gaiman (Author)

"Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season."
New book– 26 Oct. 2023


In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in aid of the UNHCR's winter appeal. It revealed our shared desire to feel safe, welcome and warm in a world that can often feel frightening and lonely.

Neil Gaiman Reveals Poem for Refugees - For Reading Addicts

Now publishing in hardback and illustrated by a group of artists from around the world, What You Need to Be Warm is an exploration of displacement and flight from conflict through the objects and memories that represent warmth. It is about our right to feel safe, whoever we are and wherever we are from. It is about holding out a hand to welcome those who find themselves far from home.

Featuring new, original illustrations from Chris Riddell, Benji Davies, Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan, Daniel Egnéus, Pam Smy, Petr Horácek, Beth Suzanna, Bagram Ibatoulline, Marie-Alice Harel, Majid Adin and Richard Jones, with a thought-provoking cover from Oliver Jeffers.

Sales of every copy of this book will help support the work of #UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which helps forcibly displaced communities and stateless people across the world.

 

Book Description: A beautifully illustrated gift book from 

award-winning author, Neil Gaiman, woven from thousands of responses

 to a question posed to his Twitter followers. 

This powerful and poignant poem of welcome was written to support

 the work of the UN Refugee Agency, and is brought to life by thirteen

 extraordinary artists from all around the world. 

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Children's Books; 1st edition (26 Oct. 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152666061X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526660619
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 cm
 www.gaimanbooks.com
“Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. You have the right to be here.”

‘Trying to make art in order to get attention for something like this is a very good use of my time’ ... Gaiman meets Ayman and his family at Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan in 2014. Photograph: Jordi Matas/UNHCR

The poem 'What You Need to be Warm" by Neil Gaiman:


A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap your hands around or burn your mouth.
A blanket knitted by your mother’s cunning fingers. Or your grandmother’s.
A smile, a touch, trust, as you walk in from the snow
or return to it, the tips of your ears pricked pink and frozen.
The tink tink tink of iron radiators waking in an old house.
To surface from dreams in a bed, burrowed beneath blankets and comforters,
the change of state from cold to warm is all that matters, and you think
just one more minute snuggled here before you face the chill. Just one.
Places we slept as children: they warm us in the memory.
We travel to an inside from the outside. To the orange flames of the fireplace
or the wood burning in the stove. Breath-ice on the inside of windows,
to be scratched off with a fingernail, melted with a whole hand.
Frost on the ground that stays in the shadows, waiting for us.
Wear a scarf. Wear a coat. Wear a sweater. Wear socks. Wear thick gloves.
An infant as she sleeps between us. A tumble of dogs,
a kindle of cats and kittens. Come inside. You’re safe now.
A kettle boiling at the stove. Your family or friends are there. They smile.
Cocoa or chocolate, tea or coffee, soup or toddy, what you know you need.
A heat exchange, they give it to you, you take the mug
and start to thaw. While outside, for some of us, the journey began
as we walked away from our grandparents’ houses
away from the places we knew as children: changes of state and state and state,
to stumble across a stony desert, or to brave the deep waters,
while food and friends, home, a bed, even a blanket become just memories.
Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place,
to hold out a badly knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say
we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.
You have the right to be here.

Arabic translation by Dr Eman Tahawy

نيل جيمان، مؤلف إنجليزي وكاتب قصص خيال قصيرة وروايات وكتب مصورة وروايات مصورة ومسرح صوتي وأفلام

"في بعض الأحيان لا يتطلب الأمر سوى شخص غريب في مكان مظلم ... أن نقول إن لدينا الحق في أن نكون هنا، لجعلنا نشعر بالدفء في أبرد موسم."

في خريف هذا العام، ستنشر كتب هاربر كولينز للأطفال كتاب "ما تحتاجه لتشعر بالدفء/لتكون دافئا"، وهو كتاب مصور يسلط الضوء على النزوح، كتبه المؤلف وسفير النوايا الحسنة للمفوض السامي للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين نيل جيمان ورسمه العديد من الفنانين.

في عام 2019، سأل جيمان متابعيه على تويتر، "ما الذي يذكرك بالدفء؟" ومن خلال الحصول على مواد من الردود، ألف غيمان قصيدة للمساعدة في نداء الشتاء الذي أطلقته المفوضية في عام 2019، والذي تم تحويله الآن إلى كتاب مصور. يستكشف فيلم What You Need to Be Warm الهروب من الصراع من خلال تسليط الضوء على الأشياء والذكريات التي تقدم الأمل خلال الأوقات العصيبة.

يروج الكتاب المصور لقائمة من 13 رساما، بما في ذلك أوليفر جيفرز لغلاف االكتاب، وبنجي ديفيز ، ويوليا جويليم ، وكريس ريدل ، وغيرهم الكثير.

وقال جيمان في بيان: "أشعر بسعادة غامرة لأن الكلمات التي نشأت من تغريدة واحدة في عام 2019 ستصبح الآن صفحات في كتاب، يتم تخيلها من خلال عيون 13 فنانا رائعا". "آمل أن يتم مشاركة الأفكار والذكريات التي تم جمعها ونسجها في هذه القصيدة والصور الجميلة التي ألهمتها على نطاق وواسع، لأن الرسالة الإنسانية أكثر إلحاحا اليوم مما كانت عليه عندما كتبت تلك التغريدة الأصلية."

ما تحتاجه لتكون دافئا ينشر في 31 أكتوبر في الولايات المتحدة و 26 أكتوبر مع بلومزبري في المملكة المتحدة. سيتبرع جيمان بأرباحه من الكتاب إلى المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين.

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