Jennifer Elvgren
Autore di The Whispering Town
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Elvgren, Jennifer Riesmeyer
- Data di nascita
- alive
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Albemarle County, Virginia, USA - Attività lavorative
- journalist
children's author - Agente
- Rick Margolis (Rising Bear Literary Agency)
- Breve biografia
- Jennifer Elvgren, a former journalist, finds her story ideas in real life, present and past. Her fiction has appeared in Highlights for Children, Spider, and Ladybug magazine. She lives in Albemarle County, Virginia, with her husband, three children, Caspian, the Border Collie; Copperfield, the rescue Foxhound; Friday, the Morgan rescue horse; and Mr. K, the rescue chubby cat. I recently lost Goodnight Moon to a pasture accident. I will miss the horse of my heart. [adapted from The Whispering Town, 2014, and Website, retrieved 6/12/22]
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The Whispering Town di Jennifer Elvgren
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In Germany in 1938, playing and dancing to jazz music is forbidden. The Hitler Youth patrol the night streets looking for anyone who breaks the rules. Albert is a member of the Edelweiss Pirates, a secret group of young people who defy the Hitler Youth. They play the forbidden music and work against the Nazis any way they can. Albert's younger brother, Kurt, loves jazz and longs to be a Pirate, too. Although he's too young to be an Edelweiss Pirate, Kurt can still find a way to take a stand.
A little boy who plays the trumpet during the Neo-Natzi era. The Edleweiss Pirates are a group of kids that play different instruments in a band called the Edelwiess Pirates.
"Residents of a small town in Nazi-occupied Denmark work together to provide a hidden Jewish mother and son safe passage to neutral Sweden.
“New friends” are being harbored in Anett’s dark basement for two nights. Though afraid, she allows their whispering voices to lead her down the stairs. Anett brings food from her mother’s kitchen and books from the library until the boy and his mother can secretly board a fishing boat that will cross over to Sweden. Most of Anett’s daily encounters with neighbors and shopkeepers show that the townsfolk support Anett’s family in their dangerous effort. When the Nazis begin to search houses each night, the situation becomes even more perilous for Anett’s family, and her father determines that they must be taken to the harbor despite the obscuring clouds. Without moonlight, the Jews are beckoned from door to door, guided only by whispering voices—“This way”—that indicate the route to safety. The direct simplicity of the story’s telling serves well as an introduction for younger children to the Holocaust. Dark cartoon sketches reminiscent of Tomi Ungerer in opaque black, blues, grays and khaki green markers and word bubbles with the key words of direction paint the ominous atmosphere.
This uncomplicated narrative of Danish resistance will facilitate teaching and discussion of a difficult yet necessary subject. (author’s note) (Picture book. 5-8)" From Kirkus Reviews, www.kirkusreviews.com… (altro)
“New friends” are being harbored in Anett’s dark basement for two nights. Though afraid, she allows their whispering voices to lead her down the stairs. Anett brings food from her mother’s kitchen and books from the library until the boy and his mother can secretly board a fishing boat that will cross over to Sweden. Most of Anett’s daily encounters with neighbors and shopkeepers show that the townsfolk support Anett’s family in their dangerous effort. When the Nazis begin to search houses each night, the situation becomes even more perilous for Anett’s family, and her father determines that they must be taken to the harbor despite the obscuring clouds. Without moonlight, the Jews are beckoned from door to door, guided only by whispering voices—“This way”—that indicate the route to safety. The direct simplicity of the story’s telling serves well as an introduction for younger children to the Holocaust. Dark cartoon sketches reminiscent of Tomi Ungerer in opaque black, blues, grays and khaki green markers and word bubbles with the key words of direction paint the ominous atmosphere.
This uncomplicated narrative of Danish resistance will facilitate teaching and discussion of a difficult yet necessary subject. (author’s note) (Picture book. 5-8)" From Kirkus Reviews, www.kirkusreviews.com… (altro)
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- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 242
- Popolarità
- #93,893
- Voto
- 4.4
- Recensioni
- 21
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 3