Your cart

Free delivery on all orders over £40
Schools can pay by invoice by setting up an account at checkout.
What You Need to Be Warm
What You Need to Be Warm
What You Need to Be Warm
What You Need to Be Warm
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, What You Need to Be Warm
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, What You Need to Be Warm
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, What You Need to Be Warm
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, What You Need to Be Warm

What You Need to Be Warm

Published: 26 Oct 2023

Hardback, 32 pages

Recommended for age 9+

By Neil Gaiman

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Regular price
£9.60
Sale price
£9.60
Regular price
RRP £12.99
Unit price
per 

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.

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.

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.

Tagged refugee experience

Part of the Refugee Experience KS2 collection

  • What You Need to Be Warm

    9+

    Regular price
    £9.60
    Sale price
    £9.60
    Regular price
    RRP £12.99
    Unit price
    per 

  • The Power of Welcome
    Regular price
    £8.14
    Sale price
    £8.14
    Regular price
    RRP £10.99
    Unit price
    per 

  • On the Move: Poems About Migration

    9+ 11+

    Regular price
    £5.90
    Sale price
    £5.90
    Regular price
    RRP £7.99
    Unit price
    per 

  • The Arrival

    9+ 11+

    Regular price
    £8.14
    Sale price
    £8.14
    Regular price
    RRP £10.99
    Unit price
    per 

  • The Journey

    5+ 7+

    Regular price
    £9.60
    Sale price
    £9.60
    Regular price
    RRP £12.99
    Unit price
    per