With the same attention to detail and straightforward writing style readers have come to appreciate from her, Deborah Hopkinson looks at how the rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe, known as the Kindertransport, was able to saved approximately 10,000 young people. In the first half of this fascinating history , Hopkinson details Hitler's rise to power and ties its impact into the lives of a number of Jewish families. Most people don't realize just how widespread anti-Semitic feelings were in 1930s Germany, but as Hitler became more popular, as his followers increased, many Jews who had believed themselves to be as German as their non-Jewish neighbors began to experience a definite change. For example, Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps for no reason, prohibitions were enacted so that Jews in civil service lost their jobs, Jews couldn't go to the movies or visit a park, Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend German s...
D-Day June 6, 1944
"You are about to embark upon the
great crusade toward which we have striven these
many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...
I have full confidence in your courage,
devotion to duty and skill in battle."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
My dearest Kitty,
"This is D Day," the BBC announced at twelve. "This is the day."
The invasion has begun!
Anne Frank
Today is the 75th anniversary and the world is honoring the heroes of that day in a big way - as we should. The D-Day landings on the Normandy coast by American, British, and Canadians soldiers and all the equipment they brought with them sometimes seems like an overwhelming mission, it feels like a miracle that it succeeded at all. But it did, and it change the course of the war. The allied invasion cost so many people their lives, and as the quote from Anne Frank reminds us, it was a momentous turning point, not the end of the war.
There are a number of very well written books about D-Day which I've already read (but haven't necessarily reviewed) and I would like to share them with you today.
Nonfiction:
by Ronald J. Drez
National Geographic Children's Books, 2004, 64 pages
by Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co., 2014, 224 pages
D-Day: The World War II Invasion The Changed History
by Deborah Hopkinson
Scholastic Press, 2018, 400 pages
D-Day: Untold Stories of the Normandy Landings
inspired by 20 real-life people
written by Michael Noble, illustrated by Alexander Mostov
Wide Eyed Editions, 2019, 48 pages
This is a picture book for older readers (age 8-12). I loved reading about these "stories of bravery, sacrifice, and innovation.
Invasion: The Story of D-Day
by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
1956, 2017
I haven't reviewed this book yet, but it is a very detailed look at what it took to prepare for the D-Day allied invasion and it's aftermath, there is just one problem with it - there is absolutely no sourcing. I gave it a four star rating for the prose content, but a one star for the sourcing.
Fiction:
by Lauren Tarshis
Scholastic, 2019, 144 pages
by Kate Messner
Scholastic, 2018, 160 pages
Barrington Stoke, 2019, 120 pages
Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Press, 1999, 2012, 144 pages
by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Press, 2013, 224 pages
by Amy McAuley
Walker Children's Books, 2012, 326 pages
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