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OverviewThe bombs were falling, the smoke was rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber, the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi, her father. Was it just a story? Did Hitler's daughter rally exist? If you were Hitler's daughter, would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark, a contemporary child, starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves. A wonderfully sensitive and gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars and Big Tom. WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary and secondary schools, but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the 'What if?' variety. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jackie FrenchPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: HarperCollins Children's Books Edition: edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.110kg ISBN: 9780007122721ISBN 10: 0007122721 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 05 November 2001 Recommended Age: 9-11 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Children/juvenile , Educational: Primary & Secondary , Children / Juvenile Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsA story that will fascinate and involve all thoughtful young readers; it is a true original, beautifully told and impossible to put down -- don't miss it! 'Wendy Cooling, Children's Book Consultant' This novel shows her at her best, challenging her young readers without distressing them, and bringing believable characters vividly to alive on the page! a joy to read. 'Canberra Times' An outstanding novel told through the power of a compelling storyteller .'Reading Time' A story that will fascinate and involve all thoughtful young readers; it is a true original, beautifully told and impossible to put down -- don't miss it! 'Wendy Cooling, Children's Book Consultant' This novel shows her at her best, challenging her young readers without distressing them, and bringing believable characters vividly to alive on the page! a joy to read. 'Canberra Times' An outstanding novel told through the power of a compelling storyteller .'Reading Time' A story that will fascinate and involve all thoughtful young readers; it is a true original, beautifully told and impossible to put down - don't miss it! 'Wendy Cooling, Children's Book Consultant' This novel shows her at her best, challenging her young readers without distressing them, and bringing believable characters vividly to alive on the page... a joy to read. 'Canberra Times' An outstanding novel told through the power of a compelling storyteller .'Reading Time' A story that will fascinate and involve all thoughtful young readers; it is a true original, beautifully told and impossible to put down - don't miss it! 'Wendy Cooling, Children's Book Consultant' This novel shows her at her best, challenging her young readers without distressing them, and bringing believable characters vividly to alive on the page... a joy to read. 'Canberra Times' An outstanding novel told through the power of a compelling storyteller .'Reading Time' In this intriguing story of what-if by an award-winning Australian writer, friends wait for their school bus during weeks of incessant rains as they listen to Anna relate the tale of Heidi, Hitler's young daughter. While it starts as part of a storytelling game, Anna's story takes on a compelling life as details of Heidi's very privileged, very isolated life unfold. Initially the boys are excited about fighting and battles, but the view of war from Heidi's perspective raises disturbing questions about genocide and children bearing responsibility for a parent's guilt and vice versa. To the author's credit, there are no easy answers given for this moral dilemma. Heidi survives the bunker in the closing days of WWII, sees her governess desert her, and joins a family who emigrate to Australia. Astute readers will realize well before the end that Anna's story is not a made-up tale. In fact, it is her grandmother's childhood. A fresh, well-told, and sobering story that needs a wide readership. (Fiction. 9-12) (Kirkus Reviews) This is a story within a story, beautifully told by Anna, one of a handful of children who wait for the bus each morning to take them to school. The story game started to help Little Tracey who was crying in her first week at school and now, a year later, the game is saved for rainy days when the children are stuck in the shelter. Mark and Ben listen at first because any story about Hitler and the war has got to be more interesting than Tracey's usual choices of fairies or horses. Gradually Mark becomes captivated by Anna's evocative descriptions of what life towards the end of the Second World War was like for a disfigured little girl who is kept apart from other children and only has the visits of Duffi to look forward to. Little Heidi is kept in her own rooms and can never visit the ' don't go down there rooms, where Duffi talked with people in uniform and flowery dresses'. As the days go by, and as Heidi becomes aware of concentration camps, Anna's story raises questions for Mark about good and evil, questions which his busy parents find too time-consuming or too difficult to answer. How was the land for his family farm taken from the aborigines? 'If everyone thinks something is right, but you know it's wrong, what do you do then?' Originally published in 1999, this novel was The Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year. The images from history have been made fresh for a new generation and this haunting story will appeal to all readers aged ten and over. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationJackie French was born in Sydney in 1953, grew up in Brisbane and moved to her present home in the NSW bush in her early twenties. She lives with her husband Bryan in a house they built themselves with stone from the creek with power from a homemade waterwheel when it's too shady for the solar panels, six wombats and various other birds and animals. She writes for all age groups - from the under 6's to the over 60's. She has won many awards for her children's titles and has been a recipient of two Commonwealth Literary Awards. She is regarded as the guru of Australian organic growing, having written over sixty books on farming, gardening and pest control. She has her own TV show on gardening in Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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