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Title: No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel ISBN: 0-380-73285-8 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating, unforgettable read .
Comment: Facsinating, in a word, describes Anita Lobel's book " No Pretty Pictures". Even though I am 33 years old I found her book to be incredibly interesting (even though it's claimed to be a "young adult book). I have always been interested in the Holocaust survivor stories, and "No Pretty Pictures" takes you on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs of one survivor and her younger brother. Anita Lobel's way of describing her memories make you feel like they happened yesterday. The way she relates the story through her long ago child's eye to the teenaged, more mature eye leaves the reader in awe of her ability to tap into shelved but not forgotten memories. I highly recommend this book to everyone. Even old adults (like me), would surely find this book inspiring and unforgettable. I will never forget it, it made me appreciate everything in my life a lot more.
Rating: 5
Summary: No Pretty Picture: A Child of War
Comment: The book begins with five year old Anita living in her home in Poland. Soon for fear of the Nazi's her family must go into hiding. Anita and her brother are sent to Lapanow with their nanny. The nanny convinces everyone that Anita and her brother, who has to be dressed as a girl in disguise, are her two sick daughters. All is going very well until Anita's mother shows up. For fear of being found out they are on the run again. This time the nanny and children hide in a convent. Later the Nazis come and take the children to a concentration camp. They lived there in horrible conditions until they were saved by the American soliders. This is an excellent book over the Jewish struggle during the Holocaust. I would reccomend this book to anyone with an interest in the Holocaust.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read!
Comment: Summary:
In 1939, when Anita Lobel was five, German soldiers marched into Krakow. Anita's father, the owner of a chocolate factory and a Jew, runs away in the middle of the night. As a child, Anita Lobel spent years hiding from the Nazis and trying to protect her little brother. The two children have to work through assumed identities, a dangerous stay in the Krakow ghetto, hiding in a convent, and much more! They were captured and marched from camp to camp. Finally, in 1945, they were reunited with their parents and they had to learn to live all over again.
My thoughts:
This book touches your heart in a way few books do. Told from a child's point of view, using a very child-like voice, the story leaps out of the pages and into your mind. This book is written by an illustrator of beautiful picture books like Potatoes, Potatoes, and On Market Street. The title, No Pretty Pictures, seems to reflect her drawing career. In one example, when she first was allowed to enter school after the war, she was sent to an art class. There, she was given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and a set of new watercolors. She painted a wonderful blue chair, to the delight of her art teacher and the other students. She hasn't stopped painting since.
One moral that simply explodes out of this book is to never give up. No matter what life throws at you - starvation, imprisonment, hiding, or whatever - you can persevere. Anita overcame all of the obstacles placed in front of her, either by herself or with the help of others, and has created a spectacular life for herself. If she can succeed despite such odds, so can everybody else.
I think children would love to read this book when they are old enough to get all the way through it. At almost 200 pages, it is not a quick book to read. But it is a gripping, page-turning story - one of those kind that you can't put down. I think children will be drawn to the child-like voice of the story, the innocence the author manages to use. Anita Lobel is one of those truly gifted authors that can tell a horrible story about a child, for a child, without sounding condescending or self-pitying.
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Title: I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson ISBN: 0689823959 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang, Patricia Crampton ISBN: 014130104X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas ISBN: 059084475X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender ISBN: 068981321X Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl ISBN: 0380731886 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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