Flowers on the Wall

by Miriam Nerlove

Homebound by a harsh Warsaw winter and the Nazi threat, Rachel combats her boredom by painting flowers on the drab, cracked walls of her family's apartment. As the German occupation draws closer and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689506147
• ISBN13: 9780689506147
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Bittersweet

What an amazing story. My daughter wept as we read through the pages together...realizing that character Rachel could not go out for the winter because she had outgrown her shoes was just the beginning of this beautiful, sorrowful tale about what could have been.

Bittersweet

What an amazing story. My daughter wept as we read through the pages together...realizing that character Rachel could not go out for the winter because she had outgrown her shoes was just the beginning of this beautiful, sorrowful tale about what could have been.As our children are learning tolerance and acceptance in today's society, it is unthinkable for us to explain the devestation in the lives of these courageous Jews.

"Flowers on the Wall" by Miriam Nerlove

This book tells a fiction story about a young girl in a photograph from Roman Vishniac's book. He went to Eastern Europe prior to the Holocaust to photograph a dying civilization: the Jews of Eastern Europe. This story provides a charming explanation for one of the most poignant photos in his book. It is also a wonderful introduction to the history of the Holocaust for young Jewish children. It portrays the horrors of war to any child. Although Miriam Nerlove does not misrepresent the history, she manges to end her story on a note of hope.