# Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War - Hardcover

by **María José Ferrada** (Author), **Ana Penyas** (Illustrator)

On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the _Mexique_, expecting to return home in a few months. This was just a short trip, an extra-long summer vacation, they thought. But the war did not end in a few months, and the children stayed, waiting and wondering, in Mexico. When the war finally ended, a dictator--the Fascist Francisco Franco--ruled Spain. Home was even more dangerous than before.

This moving book invites readers onto the _Mexique_ with the "children of Morelia," many of whom never returned to Spain during Franco's almost forty-year regime. Poignant and poetically told, _Mexique_ opens important conversations about hope, resilience, and the lives of displaced people in the past and today.

### Author Biography

**María José Ferrada** is a Chilean journalist and writer. She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chilean Academy of Language. In 2018 she received the Hispanic-American Prize for poetry for children. She currently works as the children's editor of Chilean Memory, a digital resource center of the National Library of Chile.

**Ana Penyas** has a degree in fine arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2018, she was the first woman to win Spain's National Comic Award. She has also received the Josep Toutain Prize for Best New Talent at the International Comic Fair of Barcelona.

Raised in Valencia, she now lives in Madrid. Visit Ana's website at anapenyas.es or follow her on Instagram @ana\_penyas.

**Number of Pages:** 40

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 8 x 9.1 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 27, 2020

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 2.8

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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