One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
10 best books like One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II (Lita Judge): Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, The Day You Begin, Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story, Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, Boxes for Katje, The Butterfly, The Cats In Krasinski Square, Irena's Jars of Secrets, Big Cat, Little Cat
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399246533 |
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.
There will be times when you walk into a room
and...
| Author | Marc Tyler Nobleman |
An Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction 2019
In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII—the only enemy ever to do so—and comes back 20 years later...
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban...
“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.” The picture book biography of Grace Hopper—the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science.
Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor,...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0374309221 |
Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary
After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like most Dutch families, must patch their old worn clothing and go without everyday things like soap and milk. Then one spring morning when the...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399231706 |
Since the Tall Boots--the Nazis--have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to be--not a ghost at all--but a young girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1600604390 |
Irena Sendler, born to a Polish Catholic family, was raised to respect people of all backgrounds and to help those in need. She became a social worker; and after the German army occupied Poland during World War II, Irena knew she had to help the sick and starving Jews who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto....
It’s the circle of Life. This story is simple and very profound for the very young. I don’t understand the artwork though. It is simple like the story with a white cat and black cat, but surely as an award of children’s art in storytelling, this should not have been considered. I really don’t understand....
I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II
| Author | Marisabina Russo |
| ISBN | 0375866957 |
What was it like to grow up Jewish in Italy during World War II? Sit with a little girl as her grandmother tells the story of her childhood in Rome, of being separated from her father, and of going into hiding in the mountains. Based on the experiences of the author's own family, this deeply moving book set...
| Author | Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren |
| ISBN | 1467711942 |
The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.
It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing...
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561452084 |
Without the yellow star to point them out, the Jews looked like any other Danes.
For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish pride. But during World War II, Nazis used the star to segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. Except in Denmark. When Nazi soldiers occupied his country, King...
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 0823422518 |
Irena Sendler was a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than four hundred children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children....
Lost and Found Cat : The True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey
| Author | Doug Kuntz |
| ISBN | 1524715476 |
The true story about one cat’s journey to be reunited with his war-torn family has been seen by millions of people and is now a heartwarming picture book.
When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can’t bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry him with them...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
With the addition of a brand-new author's...
