Description for The Color of Home
By Mary Hoffman
Pictures by Karin Littlewood
Hassan is a little boy from Somalia, Africa. He and his family moved to the United States and he is very homesick. Hassan has stopped seeing colors and everything has become gray. On Hassan's first day of school he knew only a few words in English and it was very different from his school back home. When the teacher sets out the art supplies he finds a new way to communicate. The teacher invites an interpreter to the classroom so Hassan can share the story of his past. Soon Hassan found friends and started adjusting to his new home, way of life, and the colors started coming back into his life.