Oskar and the Eight Blessings

by Mark Siegel, Richard Simon, T.R. Simon

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature

A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home in the north of the city, he passes experiences the city's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596439491
• ISBN13: 9781596439498
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3