I read The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman simply because everybody told met that with my interest in Holocaust literature, I HAD to read it. So of course, I did.
If you are not familiar with The Complete Maus (Maus I and Maus II), let me briefly fill you in. It’s told in alternating viewpoints between [...]
Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine is the true non-fiction account of well . . . Hana’s suitcase. Hana’s story begins in Japan at the Tokyo Holocaust Center where director Fumiko Ishioka is struggling to educate Japan’s youth about the horrors of the Holocaust. Desperate to give the students something physical to bring the realities of [...]
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a young adult non-fiction book that chronicles the German youth during the Nazi regime under Hitler during WWII. I knew I wanted to read this book after I read The Boy Who Dared, also by Susan Campbell Bartoletti who based that [...]
Thank you everybody who told me to read Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. I can’t give just one person credit because so many people told me about this wonderful book.
Jane Yolen is not a author that’s new to me, in fact I read and reviewed The Devil’s Arithmetic (my book review here) earlier this [...]
I came across I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jacksonover at Becky’s Book Reviews. Becky, like me, devours books about the Holocaust. I’m so glad to have found somebody else who can’t get enough of these types of books because frankly everybody thinks that I’m [...]
