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Anne Frank Remembered
• Miep Gies
• Allison Leslie Gold
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A memoir of Anne, the Frank family and occupied Amsterdam by Miep Gies, who with her husband and colleagues hid and protected the Franks through much of World War II. Ages 12 to adult.
(NTH59, $14.00)
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Golem
• David Wisniewski
• Lee Salsberry
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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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.
(CZH38, $17.00)
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The Good Master
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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First published in the 1930s, this novel tells of two cousins who ride horses across the Hungarian plains, encountering shepherds and gypsies en route. It's all marvelously evocative of the folk customs and lifestyles of old Hungary. Ages 9-12.
(HGR25, $5.99)
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Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
• Mary Mapes Dodge
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This classic children's novel evocative of daily life in 19th-century Holland.
(NTH40, $5.99)
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Hieronymus Bosch
• Gary Schwartz
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Little is known about the perennially intriguing painter Bosch's life, but this young person's biography fills the gaps with some surmises and much information about daily life in 15th-century Holland. Witth 55 illustrations. Ages 11-15.
(NTH65, $19.95)
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The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
• Lore Segal
• Maurice Sendak
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Sendak (who supplies the perfect black-and-white drawings) and Lore Segal present a marvelous collection of 27 haunting tales.
(GER144, $28.00)
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Kid's German Picture Dictionary
• Inc. Berlitz International
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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1000 words central to a child's everyday life teach even the youngest readers German.
(GER128, $12.95)
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Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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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, $10.95)
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Melanie Martin Goes Dutch
• Carol Weston
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This quick read is the "private diary" of a fast-talking American girl as she chronicles her summer vacation in Holland. For the 9-12-year-old set.
(NTH63, $15.95)
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The Mirror of the Artist, Northern Renaissance Art in Its Historical Context
• Craig Harbison
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A concise survey of German, Dutch and Flemish art of the 16th and 17th centuries. The author, an art historian, illuminates the important themes of the period, including realism, patronage, guilds, religious ideals, specialties and travels to Italy.
(NTH43, $24.95)
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The Singing Tree
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The sequel to "The Good Master," in which cousins Jancsi and Kate are now older -- and Hungary (and all of 1914 Europe) are on the brink of war.
(HGR26, $6.99)
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The Star of Kazan
• Eva Ibbotson
• Kevin Hawkes
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A delightful young adult adventure that twists and turns through fin-de-siecle Vienna. Annika is a foundling taken in by a household of eccentic professors and kind hearted servants, is enchanted by the spectacle of Vienna and the simple pleasures of domestic chores. Her life is turned upsidedown when her aristocratic mother unexpectedly reappears in her life and sweeps her off to live in a castle in Germany.
(CEU24, $7.99)
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The Three Golden Keys
• Peter Sis
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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In this entrancing picture book, Sis meets the Golem and Hanus the Clockmaker and other characters from his childhood in Prague, both imagined and real,
(CZH39, $23.00)
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
• Eric Philbrook Kelly
• Janina Domanska
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A children's story about a young boy in medieval Krakow.
(PLD12, $5.99)
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Upon the Head of the Goat, A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
• Aranka Siegal
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This spare memoir of a Jewish girlhood in a German-occupied Hungarian town won its author a Newbery Honor citation. Its serious subject and introspective tone are recommended for sophisticated young adults.
(HGR24, $6.95)
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Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of an Artist
• Sandra Jordan
• Jan Greenberg
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A compassionate, unsensationalistic biography, well written and geared for kids ages 9-12. With an eight-page insert of color reproductions.
(NTH60, $6.99)
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What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?
• Richard Muhlberger
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A co-publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this volume is an analysis of Rembrandt's technique and era for young readers ages 9-12. It includes color reproductions of 12 paintings.
(NTH57, $16.99)
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What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh?
• Richard Muhlberger
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A co-publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this volume is an analysis of Van Gogh's technique and life for young readers ages 9-12. It includes color reproductions of 12 paintings.
(NTH58, $16.99)
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The Wheel on the School
• Meindert DeJong
• Maurice Sendak
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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DeJong evokes a loving portrait of Holland in this inspiring novel recommended for children ages 9-12.
(NTH27, $6.95)
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The White Stag
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Kate Seredy drew on oral traditions and folklore for this gripping novella about the Huns' and Magyars' fifth-century migration from Asia to Central Europe. It won her a Newbery Medal in 1938. Ages 9 to 12.
(HGR27, $4.99)
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