The writer Paula Carballeira immersed herself in Saharawi camps as a storyteller. Her experience shows that children's literature is a tool for children to deal with situations in adverse contexts.
A Long Journey is an illustrated album that reflects another reality: that of the exiles. Why is it necessary to bring social problems to the stories that children hear or read? Why show, in media intended for entertainment, that in the world there are wars, migrations and deaths? The answer is simple: because these situations occur in real life.