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CZECH REPUBLIC & AUSTRIA
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Eyewitness Castle  •  Christopher Gravett   • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  Take a look behind the walls of these fascinating fortresses and learn how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals; how a young boy rose from lowly page to noble knight; and what life was like for the castle residents. With a CD of clip art and a poster. (EUR335, $15.99)
 
 
Golem  •  David Wisniewski  •  Lee Salsberry   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A retelling of a Jewish legend, set in Prague in the 16th century, a dark time for the city's Jewish residents. A rabbi builds a clay giant to protect his people from persecution; the golem, in this version, speaks with a child's simplicity. The remarkable paper-cutout illustrations brilliantly evoke the Prague of old. Ages 7-10. (CZH38, $17.00)
 
 
Hippocrene Children's Illustrated Czech Dictionary, English-Czech/Czech-English  •   Hippocrene   • REFERENCE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A visual dictionary geared for middle schoolers and useful for the whole family. (CZH63, $11.95)
 
 
Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)  •  Kathryn Lasky   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  The ill-fated future queen of France records life at the Habsburg palace in Austria in this novel-in-diary-format, written by the reliably excellent children's author Kathryn Lasky. (FRN342, $10.99)
 
 
The Star of Kazan  •  Eva Ibbotson  •  Kevin Hawkes   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A delightful young adult adventure that twists and turns through fin-de-siecle Vienna. Annika is a foundling taken in by a household of eccentric professors and kind hearted servants, is enchanted by the spectacle of Vienna and the simple pleasures of domestic chores. Her life is turned upside-down when her aristocratic mother unexpectedly reappears in her life and sweeps her off to live in a castle in Germany. (CEU24, $7.99)
 
 
The Three Golden Keys  •  Peter Sis   • LITERATURE • FAMILY  •  In this visually entrancing picture book, Sis meets the Golem, Hanus the Clockmaker and other characters from his childhood in Prague, both imagined and real. Both adults and children will delight in Sis's magical illustrations. (CZH39, $24.99)
 
 
The Wall, Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain  •  Peter Sis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAMILY  •  With his usual flair and attention to detail, illustrator Peter Sis deftly sketches the events, experiences and history of his youth in Prague. (CZH78, $18.00)
 
 
 




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