Stone Angel, Jane Yolen
Stone Angel, Jane Yolen
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Stone Angel

Author: Jane Yolen

Narrator: Rachel Botchan

Unabridged: 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/03/2015

Synopsis

In this emotionally rich story, a little girl and her family live happily in Paris until Nazi soldiers arrive druing World War II. She and her family must flee or risk being sent to a concentration camp, so they run into the woods, where they meet resistance fighters. But they're still not safe. They must cross tall mountains and sail in a rickety boat to England. Yet the whole time they're struggling to survive, the little girl thinks of the stone angel near their apartment in Paris and imagines it watching over her family. Offering a never-before-told story of the Holocaust, Jane Yolen returns to the material she mined in the award-winning THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC. Filled with sorrow, hope, comfort, and triumph, this gorgeously illustrated book is sure to become a modern classic-offering adults a perfect vehicle with which to share a difficult subject.

About Jane Yolen

Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. All of Yolen's stories and poems are rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate paper-cut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edward on February 20, 2015

An interesting, unusual Holocaust story with an ending that resolves too neatly. I'm confused about the girl describing the soldiers marching down the street wearing brown shirts. It was the Nazi party storm troopers who were infamous as "brown shirts," not the Wehrmacht soldiers (gray uniforms) or......more

Goodreads review by Linda on December 31, 2018

A young girl and her brother Aron are happy in Paris. They follow the streets to their favorite bakery, and purchase their favorite treat each day. Now, the brown shirts are in the city. The bad men mean to harm and make no mistake about it, they mean business when they insist that her family, and al......more

Goodreads review by Ann on August 07, 2015

Beautifully written and illustrated story of a Parisian family who must flee the Nazis and undergo an arduous journey across the mountains to safety. In the process, they spend tome with french resistance fighters. An unusual Holocaust story with as happy an ending as possible (the family returns to......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on October 07, 2018

<3......more

Goodreads review by Julie on April 26, 2021

This Holocaust picture book would work well for secondary students using picture books to write about/study figurative language, symbolism, motif and repetition. A story about faith, perseverance, survival, family, and resistance.......more

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