Girl at the Front of the Class

A stunning new picture book from Onjali Q. Raúf and Pippa Curnick.

There''s a new girl in my class. She has eyes as wide and as golden as a tiger''s, a face as pale as a glass of milk, and hair as shiny as a mirror. I''d like to be her friend. But she never wants to play with me in the playground or make sandcastles in the sandpit.

The cleverest people I know say that the new girl is sad because she...