The book
This is what the publishers say:
A powerful anthology of 15 stories about the real-life
experiences of children from all the regions affected by
the tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. Each child's story, retold
by a different well-known children's author, is followed
by a short update of the child's progress by an aid-worker.
The book is positive, inspirational and forward-looking.
It tells incredible stories of bravery and survival and
looks at how the global aid effort has affected the children
involved.
This is what Michael Morpurgo says:
This book will serve to help fund long term reconstruction
projects that are so vital to the future of all the people
living in those far away lands where the tsunami hit. Such
a book is a fine and important thing.
These are the authors taking part:
Foreword by MICHAEL MORPURGO
JUDY ALLEN ~ NEIL ARKSEY ~ ELIZABETH ARNOLD ~ BERNARD ASHLEY
~ STEPHANIE BAUDET ~ TIM BOWLER ~ EOIN COLFER ~ GILLIAN
CROSS ~ NARINDER DHAMI ~ MALACHY DOYLE ~ JOHN FARDELL ~
ALAN GIBBONS ~ NICK GIFFORD ~ CLIFF MCNISH ~ STEVE
VOAKE
This is who we're doing it for:
Unicef ~ Save the Children ~ Y Care International
~ SOS Children ~ Handicap International
This is what Nick says:
It was a fascinating exercise, writing a story based on
what really happened to a Sri Lankan boy caught up in the
Boxing Day 2004 tsunami.
In some ways it might seem trivial: turning such a traumatic
event into a made-up story.
But fiction has a power, a magic of its own: it allows
us to focus on some things and ignore others, it takes us
into the heads and hearts of our protagonists in ways that
factual accounts rarely achieve.
Sometimes, fiction can be more real, and I hope
these stories will take you there and connect you with what
happened in ways we couldn't have managed by any other means.
And I hope these stories raise lots of money for the excellent
work already being done by our adopted charities!
The launch party
The launch was fun - interesting people (including fellow
authors, charity workers, various VIPS, some celebs, and,
of course, project organiser and editor, Anuj Goyal) and
some fantastic artwork by Sri Lankan kids.
  
photographs by Cheryl Miller, LRPS
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