Milkweed

Name: Milkweed
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9781843624851

Jerry Spinelli

01/07/2004
Orchard Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Milkweed par Jerry Spinelli

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur This is the true story of Jews and Gypsies in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. But it is also the story of a street orphan who survives on quick thinking schemes to find food: who believes in bread, mothers and angels. A tragic but beautiful account through the eyes of the innocent. Revue de presse This is a remarkable book - a great story that is funny and moving, but at the same time, quite harrowing. ( The Bookseller) A book which must now constitute the most remarkable of children's Holocaust fiction. ( Books for Keeps) Concise, controlled, cleanly and crisply written, Milkweed incorporates the moving, the funny and the profound with consummate skill. A triumph. ( Carousel) A tremendously powerful and poignant novel. Jerry Spinelli takes us to a devastating period of history but tells a poetic tale of heartbreak and survival ... A reader cannot fail to be moved with this story. ( School Librarian) Milkweed is fresh and vital. The writing is vivid and as funny as it is uncompromising in its depiction of the horrors of life ... Sentimentality is successfully avoided and the whole rings of authentic experience while also bearing the marks of a fine piece of storytelling. ( The Guardian) Biographie de l'auteur Jerry Spinelli started out wanting to be a cowboy. Luckily for young readers, he later decided to become a writer, even though he's still not sure he can call himself one (he does other things too, like picking berries and skipping stones).