Laila Ekboir
Laila Ekboir is an Argentine illustrator. As a kid, she was lucky enough to have parents who were avid readers and instilled in her a love of books. She got a BA in English Lit but found her true passion after graduating, in a workshop for children’s book illustration in Argentina. She later went on to pursue an MA in children's book illustration from the Cambridge School of Art.
Laila likes experimenting with materials of all kinds and thinks it's important to find the right medium for each story. She's inspired by all sorts of things including everyday occurrences, current affairs, and memories. As a Third Culture Kid she's particularly drawn to themes related to identity and cultural expressions. She delights in quirky, comical stories, as well as the challenge of exploring difficult themes in an approachable, sensitive manner.
A young readers edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust.
Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labour before being released at the end of the war.
After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened.
This is a deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.
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Ages 8+ | 211mm × 140mm | 208pp | 3 Pantones | Gold foil on cover