Emotive and simplistic. Hopeful and terrifying.
I love the way this book allows children to find their own depth of thought to the story. The book has minimal words and the illustrations are heavily suggestive but not explicit of the truth of the characters fate. It is as perfectly correct of a child to be upset by an ending where Amina is carried off by the sea, or for her to be rescued and taken to the safety of a camp where there is no more war.

The subject is handled in an age appropriate way, whilst not losing any of the seriousness and emotion that is holds, and is also crafted that an adult could read this and be moved just as much as a child.