Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Familiar Experience: Being new in an unfamiliar place, moving, learning a new language
Culture: Sudanese immigrant

Cartwheel and her Auntie are forced to leave their home due to war and move to a new country with a new language. Cartwheel knows nothing of the customs of the people or the language they speak. She is very sad and at night when she is home, she wraps herself in a blanket of her own words and sounds. Another girl her age is friendly towards Cartwheel and begins to teach her English words, which Cartwheel uses to make a new blanket.

An excellent book for showing children the power of being friendly and inviting to anyone but especially to someone that might look uncomfortable or sad. Doubly important for children that have experienced learning a new language and living in a foreign world.