Number the Stars

i was clearing out my closet over the weekend and found a box of old books that i read as a kid! i originally read this when i was about 10 years old and i can tell you that, at that age, there was no way i understood the depth of horror and severity of the holocaust. and i wouldnt have been exposed......more

When I was in elementary school, the teacher read this book aloud to the class, and I just had to know what happened. I lived for spoilers even then….. Number the Stars is a book set in World War II in Copenhagen. We meet two young girls, Annemarie and Ellen, who are racing each other along the street......more

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a World War II Historical Fiction Novella! In 1943, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen are ten-year-old best friends with fond memories of life in Copenhagen before the Nazi Occupation of Denmark. Their lives are different now with soldiers everywhere, less to eat, a......more

As part of a children's book readathon I am hosting on my blog, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry was voted as a winner in the poll. We assigned this stellar Newbery Medal winner to this week and have been sharing all our reviews. Normally I'm not a fan of reading literature that delves into this subje......more

C. S. Lewis famously wrote something to the effect that a children's book so bland and simplistic that it could appeal only to children probably has nothing of much real worth to offer to a child reader, either. He was right; the best and truest (in the sense of Mary E. Wilkins' Freeman's comment th......more