Book description
Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed
trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish
family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War
Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your
noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any
longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own
father was one of those people.
That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it
began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice
of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler,
the man who would soon change the whole of Europe - starting with her
own small life.
Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One
day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her
brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away
from everything they knew - home and schoolmates and well-loved toys -
right out of Germany… “A compassionate introduction to the whole
subject of World War II” - Books for your Children
“An extremely exciting adventure story.” - Daily Express
“A charming and touching book, often very funny” - Daily Mail
“Exact, intelligent and unsentimental.” - Sunday Telegraph Judith
Kerr was born in Berlin, the daughter of a distinguished German writer.
She left Germany with her family in 1933 to escape from the Nazis and
they arrived in England in 1936, having spent the intervening years in
Switzerland and France. She is married to writer Nigel Kneale and they
have two children
