Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: Talking About Flamingos and Watermelons with Zahra Marwan

If you were to graph the number of children’s picture books in which immigration plays a significant role, you’d see a marked uptick when you hit the last decade. Part of what makes this so interesting is the wide array of books that have come out. Wordless, metaphorical, deadly serious, or done with exquisite illustrations. Some are memoirs while others are wholly fictional. Sometimes it feels like I’ve seen so many, and yet I’ve never seen anything like Zahra Marwan’s WHERE BUTTERFLIES FILL TH...