Coming to Canada (First edition)

With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child.

Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid the children's books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak's brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child must surely experience when having their little world upended, only to have a much larger and foreign world unfold before them.In a heartbreaking parting, a child says goodbye to her family and is left with her imagination as guide.

In search of a new life in a new land, a child retreats into the realm of fantasy.

Through the devastating pain of childhood loss emerges the joy of a child's triumph.