Some fail, others succeed, and one of the most successful was probably Number the Stars. Though some feel that the subject matter is inappropriate for young audiences, others argue that children must be educated about such a significant historical event.” So periodically we will see children’s books try to tackle this slippery subject. “Holocaust children’s literature has always been controversial. “Representations of the Holocaust in Children’s Literature” from the Children’s Literature Review puts it this way. There is a serious debate out there about if and when to teach children about the Holocaust. It was important, too, to walk around Copenhagen and feel what the city is like (and imagine what it had been like then) and to go up the coast, through the farmland and the fishing villages.” But the most important thing I did was to go to Denmark and to talk to people who had actually participated in the rescue of the Jews.
Lowry talks a bit about it on the Scholastic site: “I did a lot of research in libraries, about the history of WW II and Denmark’s role in it.
In terms of the research for this novel, Ms.
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