The Number on My Grandfather's Arm

by David A. Adler, Rose Eichenbaum (Photographer)

Overview

A Feldman Library Fund publication.

Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Award

"Honest, reassuring, and positive, this is everything that a young child needs in a book." - Moment

The moving story of a young girl who learns of her grandfather's experience in Auschwitz and then helps him overcome his sensitivity about the number on his arm, this award-winning picture book gives young children just enough information about the Holocaust without overwhelming them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807403280
Publisher:	URJ Press
Publication date:	09/28/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	28
Sales rank:	1,003,753
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Editorial Reviews

"This succeeds as an attempt to bring essential family and historical information to young readers, with just enough details to be truthful but not so many as to be terrifying."

— Publisher's Weekly

"Adler has succeeded admirably in his attempt to explain the inexplicable. An important book for everyone concerned with human rights."

— School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Gr 1-4 A loving relationship between a young girl and her grandfather is portrayed in text and black-and-white photographs. When the girl notices a number tattooed on her grandfather's arm, her grandfather tells her of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews, even describing Auschwitz, the camp he was in. ``We were no longer people to them. We were numbers.'' Moved, the young girl comforts her grandfather. The deceptively simple vocabulary does not limit the dignity of the text. Because of the subject matter, this would work best when presented by an adult with preparatory and follow-up discussion, but it offers just enough information and emotion for primary grade children to handle. That this really happened to a beloved grandfather makes the horror more immediate and realistic, and offers a different approach than the more allegorical one taken in Promise of a New Spring (Rossell, 1981) by Gerda Klein. Adler has succeeded admirably in his attempt to explain the inexplicable. An important book for everyone concerned with human rights. Micki S. Nevett, Temple Beth Emeth Library, Albany, N.Y.

School Library Journal