This is a difficult book to categorize. It could have been put into all sorts of different sections, but I have chosen the ones below as being the most relevant. The book is divided into four main sections: the first, Family and Friends, are poems about Michael Rosen's Polish-Jewish family, their move to the UK or to France or the US and their stories that he learned from the closest members to him here in Britain - the two languages his Mum speaks, using very different words like kvetsh, chup, and graps, his father's songs from round the world, visits to his maternal grandparents, and the feeling that his friends find him 'different' from themselves. He senses that there are family members missing without really understanding why. There is racism too, which he can't understand. The second section, called The War, centres around the family stories about the Holocaust and World War II, and Mum and Dad both have tales to tell, history really in it's purest form. They take trips to Germany and France to see the effects of the war, and all the way through Rosen feels 'different'. The third section, The Migrants in Me, brings together Rosen's growing interest in research about his family and what happened to the missing ones during the war. Two uncles in particular, French uncles, Oscar and Martin, come under particular scrutiny, both of whom died in Auschwitz, and he learns about other stories too, most of which end sadly. He finds a sad letter from aunts who are afraid for their loved ones and want them all to be rescued. There is even a police document signed by the police who arrested his Uncle Martin. He meets his father's cousin, Michael, who escaped from Poland during the pogroms and never saw his parents again. Sent to a Russian camp, he survived, but the war had left terrible scars. The poem 'Arriving' tells the story: 'The guns stopped. The bombs stopped. The world was broken. People were broken. Millions of people had no home, millions of people were far from home.' Michael was one of the lucky ones. He remembered a cousin in England and found a home again. The last section, On the Move Again, finds us in modern times with refugees and migrants arriving once again on our doorsteps - from Syria, the Congo and from many other places, and once again they are searching desperately for homes. Rosen knows that the stories of all these people are inborn in him as well: 'They remind me of relatives, who at one moment were as safe as houses, and the next, had no houses to be safe in.' The penultimate poem, 'On the Move Again', says it all: 'You know you gotta go, no time to grieve, you just gotta leave. Get away from the pain On the move again. Take the train, Catch a plane....and so it goes. Fear and and sadness are endemic. The poems are all intensely moving, some in the beginning quite funny, but all are so evocative of times past and times present and they form a very personal record of one family's experiences. The beautiful and haunting illustrations by Quentin Blake in blacks and greus. soft greens and pinks picture perfectly immigrants making their toilsome ways in journeys they don't wish to take but must. A stunning book in every way and should be in every school.