Stone Soup
Book description
More than twenty years ago, Anita Lobel published her childhood memoir, NO PRETTY PICTURES, to much acclaim. A child's tale of surviving Hitler's Poland, a rescue by the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, and ending with school years in Stockholm, that book was written in a young girl's voice. NO…
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1 author picked Stone Soup as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
To call this book a “favorite” is a stretch, but it certainly was one of the most fascinating and memorable books I’ve read in the last few years.
Lobel is a children’s author and illustrator who was married to another children’s author and illustrator (Arnold Lobel of Frog & Toad fame; he died in 1987). Her first memoir detailed her harrowing experiences as a Jewish child in Poland during World War II, ending with her arriving in the U.S. in her late teens. This one picks up there, spending most of its time on her marriage, including its long, complicated…
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