A Serious Subject

Over the last few years, I have run across many books for children about the Holocaust. You as parents need to decide when it is appropriate to teach your children about this horrific time in history. Here are some books that can help you with that, and some books for older kids who are interested in what it was like to live and die during that time:

Non-Fiction

• Hana's Suitcase: A True Story, by Karen Levine

• The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak, by Tomek Bogacki
  

• The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
  


• Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House, by Menno Metselaar

Fiction

• The Cats in Krasinski Square, by Karen Hesse (Picture Book)


• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable, by John Boyne (Juvenile Chapter Book)
  

• Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry (Juvenile Chapter Book)
  


• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (Young Adult Book)