Michael Rosen
The Missing
eBook
(Walker Dec. 12, 2019)
“Rosen shows children every shade of life – dark and gloomy or bright and dazzling.” GuardianBy turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who “went missing” during the Second World War – told through prose and poetry. When Michael was growing up, stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. They were there before the war, his dad would say, and weren’t after. Over many years, Michael tried to find out exactly what happened: he interviewed family members, scoured the internet, pored over books and travelled to America and France. The story he uncovered was one of terrible persecution – and it has inspired his poetry for years since. Here, poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children about the Holocaust.“One of our most popular children’s authors … Michael Rosen has a talent for saying much in the simplest way.” The Times
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