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BfK No. 123 - July 2000

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Monkey Puzzle. Written in rhyme, this agreeable story has butterfly helping little monkey to find his mum. Scheffler’s distinctive, entertaining and strongly characterised illustrations make good use of the page as little monkey meets lots of jungle inhabitants before being reunited with his mum. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover.

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My Secret Camera

 Mendel Grossman
 Frank Dabba Smith
(Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
40pp, NON FICTION, 978-0711214774, RRP £12.99, Hardcover
10-14 Middle/Secondary
Buy "My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto" on Amazon

This striking book is based around a series of black and white photographs, taken secretly by Mendel Grossman, a young Jew imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II. They include haunting scenes of ghetto life - a woman scrubbing the streets with a tiny brush and bowl, a boy feeding his sister and a procession of Jews leaving the Ghetto, never to return. Accompanied by a simple, first person text, it creates a powerful memoir of the Holocaust, rendered all the more moving because of the circumstances in which the photographs were taken and the fate of the young photographer (who died in a prison camp). Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid however, is that, among the horror and inhumanity, the photographs tell another story, of human dignity and strength of spirit - an inspiring tale indeed.

Reviewer: 
Anita Ganeri
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