Bombs on Aunt Dainty: A classic and unforgettable children’s book from the author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea

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However, I enjoyed this book very much and I think my fellow book-club members have enjoyed this as well. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. A theme of this story could be love, because Anna's family has to adapt from a rich life in Germany to life in Switzerland and France with very little space and money. They also learn the Nazis appeared at their Berlin residence to confiscate their passports and bar them from leaving the country.

That first book, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential Modern Classics) , was definitely written for children close to 9 or 10 as a minimum age, though its upper age readership widens to include the not so young adult as well as the YA market, as the writing itself, and the viewpoint, though accessible, is deep enough to be experienced and enjoyed at whatever level of understanding the reader possesses.Anna passes absolutely as an English born and bred young women - until of course she encounters officialdom and background checks. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Others about WW2 usually are about fears of the Nazi's and Hitler, but Anna's concerns don't affect anything about the crisis in history.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications that are exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. It of course adds a particular intensity and irony to the electric sense of being in love with everything, with life itself, as well as the beloved, when this is played out against the background of the Blitz, and when Anna is employed by an organisation which is engaged in exchanging the uniforms of dead soldiers and sailors for new recruits, and she is also part of the firewatching volunteers during the Blitz, seeing death and destruction up close.

Aus der Generation der Babyboomer eines wohl geordneten Nachkriegslands entstammend, überschwemmt mit Erzählungen zu Kriegsgreueln, konnte ich doch erstmals hier „wirklich“, in Identifikation mit der kleinen Anna, nachvollziehen, was eine Flucht im Laufe der Zeit mit Menschen macht. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. I re-read this book last year having read it as a child, this is a more accessible novel for young children to start to learn about the tragic stories of World War Two. Mit dezenter Verschämtheit und doch in aller Unmissverständlichkeit sind Dynamiken so beschrieben, wie sie in Familien täglich stattfinden, aber meist unbewusst ablaufen.