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The Number on My Grandfather's Arm - by David A Adler (Paperback)
About this item
Highlights
- A Feldman Library Fund publication.Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Award"Honest, reassuring, and positive, this is everything that a young child needs in a book.
- Sydney Taylor Book Award (Younger Readers) 1987 1st Winner
- 7-9 Years
- 9.8" x 7.8" Paperback
- 32 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, General
Description
About the Book
A little girl questions a number printed on her grandfather's arm and he explains how he received it in a Nazi concentration during World War II.Book Synopsis
A Feldman Library Fund publication.
Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Award
"Honest, reassuring, and positive, this is everything that a young child needs in a book." - Moment
The moving story of a young girl who learns of her grandfather's experience in Auschwitz and then helps him overcome his sensitivity about the number on his arm, this award-winning picture book gives young children just enough information about the Holocaust without overwhelming them.
Review Quotes
"This succeeds as an attempt to bring essential family and historical information to young readers, with just enough details to be truthful but not so many as to be terrifying."
- Publisher's Weekly
"Adler has succeeded admirably in his attempt to explain the inexplicable. An important book for everyone concerned with human rights."
-- School Library Journal