‘With illustrations that find sweetness in sadness, this touching picture book is the resonant story of refugee siblings who have lost everything but each other'. - The Sunday Times

‘Gill Smith’s illustrations for Saving the Butterfly (Walker) by Helen Cooper also lean towards muted grey shades as we see a boy and his older sister, two refugees, rescued from a boat. The boy settles, makes friends, but the girl is haunted by the past and can’t move on until the day her brother brings her a butterfly. As the insect and the girl begin to flourish, the illustrations become as rich and colourful as the butterfly’s wings. A tender tale focusing on the aftermath of conflict, it’s a great companion to Nicola Davies’s The Day War Came (2019).’ - Observer

'A triumph of storytelling in words and art.' 'Children's Books About Immigration'. - The New York Times