Janusz Korczak's Children

By Gloria Spielman

Book Overview

A biography of Janusz Korczak, who went to his death with the Jewish orphans in his care during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580132553
• ISBN13: 9781580132558
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Kar-Ben Pub
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Short but Sweet Biography of a Caring, Tender Man

Janusz Korczak was a champion of children, dedicating his life for them and, in the end, comforting them at the death camp Treblinka. Because this is a book geared toward younger readers, it treats Dr. Korczak's final years with sensitivity. Moreover, Ms. Spielman devotes most of the book to Janusz Korczak's boyhood and his running his orphanage at 92 Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, Poland. Throughout the book, the kind Doctor is portrayed as the caring, sensitive man he was and how he served the children nobody else wanted. I am grateful that this lovely little book was written for children, to introduce them to a caring, heroic man who loved them. His story deserves to be told - and read by children and their lucky parents.