National Children’s Literature Award in Greece
Arif believes he is an alien.
He thinks he is an eleven year old creature from another planet.
In school he feels like an odd being with three antennas for eyes, a satellite nose, six trunk-like ears for pulling and a landing area as a neck for earthly slaps and flying pencils.
He is an outcast.
But everything changes when he visits the box.
Three dreams are about to change his daily school life.
In each one of them he enters his class’s box of lost and found. He meets a lost item of one of his classmates. The lost item has a friendly chat with Arif, revealing information about his owner’s life.
So Arif wakes up every morning feeling confident that he can meet the owner – student and have a normal chat with him or her in the classroom.
Three dreams, three lost items
Three students, three awakenings.
Is our imagination so far from reality?
The story which captures the voice of an outcast student, son of an immigrant father, gained the support of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece.
METAIXMIO, 2014, 112 PAGES
