Twenty-five Holocaust survivors who spent the war years as children hiding from the Nazis–from those shielded by courageous strangers to those given refuge in convents and orphanages–share their memories.
Age
Catalog sorted by age group
The Burnt Stick
Growing up in a missionary home run by white men, John Jagamarra, who is part aborigine and part white, misses the mother from whom he’s been separated and the culture of his own people.
The Bird Who Was an Elephant
A bird visits a colorful village in India, seeing a spice shop, a sacred cow, a snake charmer, and a palmist.
A Tale of Tulips, A Tale of Onions
Amid the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland, gardener Ed Vard Grooter’s love of tulips and sea captain Drooter Van Zooter’s love of onions almost bring them to blows.
Samir And Yonatan
Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars.
My Grandma Leonie
A child describes all the things she did with her grandmother and how she felt when her grandmother died.
Pirate Girl
Ferocious pirate Captain Firebeard thinks that he and the ruthless crew of the ‘Horrible Haddock’ rule the high seas. But Firebeard and his band meet their match when they kidnap a small but feisty girl named Molly.
Warriors, Wigmen, And The Crocodile People: Journeys In Papua New Guinea
Visits two different communities on the South Pacific island of Papua New Guinea and describes their traditional ways of life. Includes photographs and a map.
Postcards from No Man’s Land
Alternates between two stories — contemporary, 17-year-old Jacob visits Amsterdam at the request of his grandmother — and historical, 19-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British attempts to liberate Holland from occupation.
A Ride On The Red Mare’s Back
With the aid of her magic wooden horse, a brave girl travels to the High House in the mountains to rescue her kidnapped brother from the trolls.