When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: A classic and unforgettable children’s book from the author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea

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This story is not about the holocaust or the war. It is about the struggle of the fleeing Jewish refugees to cope with different cultures and lifestyles and to meet the ends under their diminished financial status. They had to live on their own skill and with the help of kind friends, having given most of their hard-earned valuables to the Nazis. And all because they are of Jewish origin! Yes, thanks to God that they have saved their lives, their most precious thing. Still, being displaced and living like gypsies is not easy as one may think. Wherever they go, they don't feel at home; they don't feel that they belong there; they feel their difference from the others. Then there is the other side of the coin. Living as "refugees" and being of "Jewish origin" they had to be patient, submissive, and endure all the slighting with swallowed indignation. This mindset is sincerely and sensitively portrayed by the author. I love the family. They’re flawed characters but good people and I loved them all. I appreciated that in Germany, and in Switzerland and France, and England, that they had people “100% on their side” – decent good people supporting them and not supporting Hitler’s policies.

a b Daniel Hahn (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. p.622. ISBN 9780199695140. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016 . Retrieved 1 September 2016. In Switzerland, Anna is taught to yodel and the boys pelt her with pebbles. “It’s what they do here,” says her brother Max. “When they’re in love with anyone they throw things at them. Really Anna should feel honoured.” A few days later Anna sees Max in the village, throwing unripe apples at a girl. “Max was very adaptable,” she concludes. I loved this book because there was always something interesting going on; there were no slow-moving parts in the book at all.

La novela tiene ya unas cuantas décadas, pero todo lo que en ella se narra se puede interpretar comparándolo con nuestra situación actual. Nuestro país recibe refugiados y hay opiniones muy diversas en la sociedad sobre ello. No entraré a opinar personalmente, pero creo que el libro es una gran oportunidad de acercar a nuestros pequeños lectores una gran realidad, pasada, presente y por desgracia también futura.

This semi-autobiographic classic records author's experiences as a young girl of 9, who had to leave Germany with her family when the Nazis put her father, Alfred Kerr, an influential German critic of Jewish descent, in their top list of opponents. Their first home, as refugees, was Switzerland, then they settle in France, and finally in England, like that of Anna in the story. I would definitely recommend reading this book to other people and I look forward to reading the other books in the series Bombs on Aunt Dainty and A Small Person Far Away which I am sure I will in time. I really look forward to finding out what happens in the rest of Judith's/Anna's life. To celebrate fifty years of this momentous classic this new audio version of the book, read by Judith’s daughter, actor and artist Tacy Kneale, creates a heartfelt and truly memorable rendition of this much-loved story. Anna lives with the fear of bombs while Max is away studying at Cambridge University. The final scenes take place on VE Day.

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Drabble, Emily (18 February 2015). "Judith Kerr: I wasn't scared enough. That's how I nearly gave us away | Children's books". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2018. My parents were wonderful. My brother Michael and I knew there wasn't much money but it didn't seem to matter much. They made us feel it was an adventure. I much preferred it to the sort of childhood I would have had had we had a so-called normal childhood. When we were in Paris we had this grotty, tiny flat and were looking out over Paris and I said to my father, 'Isn't it wonderful being a refugee!' [5] Judith Kerr's WHEN HITLER STOLE THE PINK RABBIT is a semi-autobiographical story about a nine year-old Jewish girl named Anna who lives with her family in Berlin just as the Nazis are rising to power in Germany. Anna has an older brother named Max. Her mother, just called "Mama," is a well-to-do housewife and her father, "Papa," is a famous writer and prominent critic of the Nazi regime and the Nazi party. The story is about the family's flight from the Nazis, who have put a price on Anna's father's head since he is one of their critics. The family moves from Weimar Germany to Switzerland, then to France and ends up in England, because Papa cannot find work in countries influenced by the Nazis, since they refuse to publish his work. The notable feature of the book, however, is that the complexities of pre-war European politics are seen through the eyes of a young girl, and are greatly simplified as a result. WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT thus gives a simple picture of Europe prior to World War II easily digestible for children. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life. a b c Armitstead, Claire (27 July 2015). "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr – an adult story in a children's book". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 19 November 2017.

I have read a good few books about wartime experiences, but `the child's experience' which Kerr recounts precipitated me into something more visceral, less intellectual. The book is set in 1956, coinciding with the Hungarian Revolution. Anna lives in Kensington with her husband Richard, a scriptwriter for the BBC, [6] but must return to West Berlin where her mother lives amidst the Cold War. Towards the end of the book Anna becomes pregnant.The book is a partly autobiographical story about 10-year-old Anna and her family who flee Germany, just before Hitler comes to power, as they are Jewish. Anna’s father is a famous writer who is also quite vocal in his views against the Nazis and he appears on a wanted list in the government soon after he flees. With this axe looming over their heads, the family tries to adapt to a normal life as best as they can.

Judith Kerr is a writer and artist, who created classic books for young children. However, she also wrote some books for older children, young adults, and, I would maintain - not -so-young-adults, based around her experiences as a child in Germany in the early 1930s, daughter of a prominent, vocal anti-Nazi during the time the Nazis were beginning to gather power and mass support. These experiences gave rise to 3 fictional books, but books nevertheless drawing hugely on her own life, with the central character, Anna, aged 9 in this book, on the verge of leaving Germany just as the National Socialists are about to come to power. This book focuses on life in Germany through the eyes of the 9 year old, and on her refugee status as her family, with increasing desperation, work their way through Switzerland France and finally England in an attempt to find safety, a home, and employment.As the children's writer Michael Morpurgo, who wrote the foreword to the Kindle edition of `Pink Rabbit' points out - the experience of displacement, of being a refugee, of being made an outsider and an untouchable is not, sadly, a historical one which ended in 1945. It goes on, and Kerr's beautifully written book is pertinent for today's children and today's adults. It was a sweet book, with the main difference being that it didn't dive as deeply into the War as the others did. There was no talk of bombs, and death was only lightly mentioned. Hitler was mostly shown as a terrible man who was a very long way away and so didn't cause much bother, except for it being harder to make money...