The Cats In Krasinski Square
10 best books like The Cats In Krasinski Square (Karen Hesse): Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen, The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story, Star of Fear, Star of Hope, Rose Blanche, One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, Boxes for Katje, Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War, The Butterfly
| Author | Michelle R. McCann |
| ISBN | 1582460981 |
Why am I still alive? Why was I spared?
One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed.
But they are someone’s children....
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
| Author | Karen Gray Ruelle |
| ISBN | 0823421597 |
When the Nazis occupied Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation.
Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet during that perilous time, many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place--the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1584301570 |
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?
The...
Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story
Mikey’s dad has left home to fight overseas during World War I, and Mikey wants to do something BIG to help. When his teacher suggests that the class participate in a knitting bee in Central Park to knit clothing for the troops, Mikey and his friends roll their eyes—knitting is for girls! But when the...
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
| Author | Jo Hoestlandt |
| ISBN | 0802775888 |
Set in France, during the Nazi occupation of World War II, a gentile child named Helen recalls the mounting persecution of her Jewish friend. She wonders why does her best friend, Lydia, have to wear a yellow star? Why are people in hiding and using strange names? What is Lydia afraid of?
Touching...
| Author | Roberto Innocenti |
| ISBN | 1568461895 |
This is a horror story. Highly disturbing. Who the heck is this aimed at?!
It’s about the horrors of war/the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young (non-Jewish) German girl who doesn’t fully understand the situation of the war going on. She does see some suffering though and tries...
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1423100085 |
If not for the photos, etc. I might have put this book on my historical fiction shelf, but I think the account is sufficiently accurate to have it belong on my non-fiction shelf. The author-illustrator dedicated this book to her mother and grandmother, which is fitting. Judge found a box of foot tracings...
| 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...
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
| Author | Yukio Tsuchiya |
| ISBN | 0395861373 |
Although Yukio Tsuchiya's 1988 picture book Faithful Elephants (well actually, the author wrote the story in the immediate post WWII period, in 1951, but this here picture book was originally published in 1988) most definitely has a strong and also powerful anti-war (and thus also a pro peace) message,...
| 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 | Meg Wiviott |
| ISBN | 0822599295 |
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689845022 |
"You're a strong skater, Piet, and you have a quick mind. This is why I know you'll succeed in this important task. I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't know it could be done."
In 1941 Piet, a young Dutch boy from Sluis, gets the assignment of a lifetime: He must skate along the frozen canals of...
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152053808 |
It is difficult to find a children's book, that is illustrated tastefully, about a family in war time, but this book achieves this task effortlessly. There are moments where you might think the content is a bit strong for younger children, but if you think about it in terms of global consciousness and...
| 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....
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 1570915474 |
4.5 stars. When Poland is invaded a boy is seperated from his family.
Like a length of kindling in one stroke, they split
He feels he knows his parents are dead. Happy memories keep him going, and his harmonica, a gift from his father he miraculously kept concealed. One night a guard hears...
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...
| Author | Ruth Vander Zee |
| ISBN | 1568461763 |
Although a picture book in form and shape, Erika’s Story is not for preschoolers. Innocenti’s famous photographic-style paintings in largely sepia tones (except a pink blanket wrapped baby thrown from a train) intensify the austerity of the tale. One of his previously published books, Rose...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152023658 |
I try to start Monday's classes with a picture book read aloud because most students love them. This is a picture book for mature readers and showcases what can happen when people don't respect one another's differences. The characters are swans and the peacocks who feel threatened by one another because...
