When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit/Bombs on Aunt Dainty Bind-Up - Softcover

Judith Kerr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007443331 ISBN 13: 9780007443338

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2012

Synopsis

Anna was only nine years old in 1933, too busy with her school work and friends to take much notice of Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something you were because your parents and grandparents were Jewish. But then one day her father was unaccountably, frighteningly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, were hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy.

Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family embark on an adventure that would go on for years, in several different countries. They learn many new things: new languages, how to cope with the wildest confusions, and how to be poor. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills to being a refugee. And as long as the family stayed together, that was all that really mattered.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Kerr was born in Berlin, but left Germany with her family in 1933 to escape the Nazis. They arrived in England in 1936, having spent the intervening years in Switzerland and France. There she met her husband Nigel Kneale and they had two children together; Judith wrote `The Tiger Who Came to Tea' for them, which has gone on to become a much-loved classic, I print for over forty years. She was awarded an OBE in 2012 for services to children's literature and holocaust education, and celebrates her 90th birthday in 2013.

Review:

Acclaim for When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: "A compassionate introduction to the whole subject of World War II" - Books for your Children "An extremely exciting adventure story." - Daily Express "A charming and touching book, often very funny" - Daily Mail "Exact, intelligent and unsentimental." - Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007443331
• ISBN 13: 9780007443338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592