The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak - Hardcover

Bogacki, Tomek

 
9780374341367: The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374341362 ISBN 13: 9780374341367
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly newspaper. Even when Korczak was forced to move the orphanage into the Warsaw Ghetto after Hitler's rise to power, and couldn't afford to buy food and medicine for his charges, he never lost sight of his ideals. Fully committed to giving his children as much love as possible during a terrifying time, Korczak refused to abandon them.

In his most beautiful and heartfelt book to date, with evocative acrylic illustrations and spare, poignant prose, Tomek Bogacki tells the story of a courageous man who, during one of the grimmest moments in world history, dedicated his life's work— and ultimately his life itself—to children.

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TOMEK BOGACKI grew up in Poland. He has written and/or illustrated over a dozen books for children, including Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book. He lives in Long Island City, New York.

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Verlag
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374341362
ISBN 13 
9780374341367
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
40
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