A short tale, copiously and sensitively illustrated by Ben Shahn, of the Prague ghetto in the 1550s. A Christian boy is discarded by his master in settlement of a debt to become the servant of one those terrible Jews whose black souls the Devil will have when they die. Except, to his awakening astonishment, his…
If anyone was destined to create a book helping children to know the futility of war, and to do so without judging those who fight in them, it was Michael Foreman. Of his four uncles three died in the First World War and one, called Christmas, died of wounds on the first Christmas Day after…
A great marriage of writer and illustrator tells the story of Ernest Shackleton’s polar expedition, the icebound Endurance, the months of camping out on the ice floe and the astonishing rescue which saw all the men survive. Text which is succinct but full of telling detail is matched by illustrations that make it all real…
