by Loic Dauvillier, Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo
80 pages, 2014
Elementary
When grandma was a little Jewish girl, she lived in Paris. But life wasn't all sweetness and roses- she lived in the time of World War II- when Jews were discriminated against, families were torn apart, and children were hidden in closets. But Grandma Dounia has never told her story. Until she tells it to her granddaughter in the middle of the night.
What a gentle way to discuss the horrors of the Holocaust with a young child. The reader can see how deeply it affected Dounia as a child (at one point she can't talk for a few days), you see the emotions that fill her and how the horrors around her change her life. But you don't see the horrors. The reader sees the changes that come- people treating them differently, police taking people away, how different her mother is once she is returned. It addresses all the issues that the Jews faced during WWII, but at the same time shows it in a manner appropriate for children.
Great read- worth looking at. Should be appropriate for most children, but might invoke more questions about the events of the Holocaust. Great way to tell this story.
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