NEIL GAIMAN is an UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and the author of the multi-million-selling graphic novel series ‘Sandman’. In his latest book, What You Need to be Warm, Gaiman weaves people’s memories of warmth into a poem in aid of the UNHCR’s winter appeal.
Read on for a sneak peek.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place… to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. 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. Whilst in a world that can often feel frightening and lonely.
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.
Sales of every copy of this book will help support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. An agency helping forcibly displaced communities and stateless people across the world.
SNEAK PEEK 1
Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
SNEAK PEEK 2
Illustrated by Ben Davies
SNEAK PEEK 3
Illustrated by Majid Adin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults. He is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work – The Graveyard Book. The L.A. Times has described his multi-million-selling graphic novel series ‘Sandman‘ as ‘the greatest epic in the history of comic books’.
Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films; Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio; American Gods and Good Omens have been adapted into major TV series. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. In 2013 he published his first adult novel for seven years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The book received stellar reviews and was a bestseller around the world.
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