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Title: In My Pocket
Publisher: ABC/The All Children's Co 01/03/1996
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN 10: 1854062336
ISBN 13: 9781854062338
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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Told in a child's voice, this story of a young German-Jewish girl who, in 1939, is carried to a new, safe life in a foreign country transcends time and offers an immediate, intimate glimpse into a world on the brink of war.

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Grade 3-4?Based on her own experiences, Sim's account describes in carefully worded text composed of short, simple sentences, what it was like for a seven-year-old child to leave her parents and travel from Germany to London in 1939 to live with an unfamiliar family until the war ended. The text gives little indication of the reason for the trip ("I was on a boat. A boat full of children escaping from danger." Then, "Mutti and Vati told me the boat would take us to a new life"). She explains that in Germany she could not play with other children because she was Jewish. She receives one letter from her parents. ("I kept it with me, safe in my pocket, until there was no more war.") Double-page, impressionist-style oil paintings show children wearing nametags clutching toy cars, stuffed animals, and small suitcases. The slightly blurred faces seem to represent Everychild. The title page and endpapers show the author's own passport and identity document, adding a sense of reality to the narrative. Seen through adult eyes, this brief story, poignant and powerful in its very simplicity, provides a tasteful introduction to the solemn topic of the Holocaust that, despite the tender age of the central character, would be most useful as a springboard for discussion with eight- or nine-year-olds. Follow it with David Adler's The Number on My Grandfather's Arm (UAHC Press, 1987) and Hilde and Eli, Children of the Holocaust (Holiday, 1994).?Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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