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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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I love books like this where it focuses on the view of smaller children who don’t really understand what is happening and I love seeing history from their perspective
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is an amazing book. It tells the story of a Jewish family through the experience of World War II. But it is different to the usual story’s about WW2. The main character doesn’t end up going to a concentration camp, she flees Germany just in time to get away.
I love books like this where it focuses on the view of smaller children who don’t really understand what is happening and I love seeing history from their perspective. It makes me wonder what I would think if I didn’t know the ending to the Second World War.
I enjoyed seeing Anna and her family work there way through all the problems. At the end of the book there is a message from the author and after reading that small part of the book it made me love it even more!
The story was a true story that really happened to the author, she thinks about how lucky she was that her parents cleverly protected her from the reality. I am not surprised it is an absolute classic, I can’t believe it took me this long to hear about it.
Michael Morpurgo called it “The most life-enhancing book you could ever wish to read” he is one of my favourite authors too and I really agree with him.
About the Book
This semi-autobiographical classic, written by Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World War. It offers insight into what it is like to be a child refugee, trying to settle in a new land when living at home becomes too dangerous. A special commemorative edition has been published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this classic tale.
Judith Kerr wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, based on her own journey, so that her own children would know where she came from and the lengths to which her parents went to keep her and her brother safe.
Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in it any longer, and you found, to your surprise, that your own father was one of those people. This is what happened to Anna in 1933 when her father is wanted by the Nazis for being a writer. It is the start of a huge adventure across Europe, sometimes frightening but very often amusing too.
Author
Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr (1923–2019) was a German-born British author and illustrator celebrated for timeless children’s classics such as 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and the “Mog” series. Her semi-autobiographical novel 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' poignantly recounts her childhood escape from Nazi Germany, drawing on her own experiences as a refugee.
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