![]() ![]() ![]() Though Holocaust stories are by definition horrifying, this one offers some hope. Miraculously, Marianne and her mother are reunited in the end. When the Bough Breaks Millie’s is a small family just a mother, a father, a small brother, Hamish, and her. Watts uncovers a tale about the real meaning of family. ![]() Yet throughout, Marianne finds allies who guard, help, and advocate for her, and she is herself resourceful and brave. Goodbye Marianne, Irene Watts explores what it is like for a young refugee girl to flee Nazi-occupied Austria alone. In this haunting journey of a young girl looking for answers and an orphan girl from the past who tries to provide them, award winning novelist Irene N. Evacuated to rural Wales after the war begins (Shoemaker’s maps help readers track the shifting locales), Marianne encounters outright bigotry (“Christ killer!” “Dirty spy!”), then stays with a couple whose own daughter has died, and who attempt, creepily, to remake Marianne into her image. Her first foster mother, counting on free domestic help, cares only for appearances: “You have shamed me in front of everyone,” she tells Marianne after the girl buys a pair of used shoes. Memories and nightmares of escalating hate under the Third Reich persist as she makes her way in a country that isn’t entirely happy to have her. (Ill.) Availability: This resource may be free from your local library or purchased from the publisher. ![]() Eleven-year-old Marianne Kohn arrives in Great Britain with the Kindertransport, a rescue that shipped Jewish children out of Germany before the outbreak of WWII. Shoemaker’s quiet, silvery-penciled panels soften this Holocaust narrative, a companion to Good-bye Marianne (2008). ![]()
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