Let the Celebrations Begin

By Margaret Wild

Book Overview

Amid rumors of liberation, inmates at Germany's Belsen camp create toys for a celebration in a moving story of hope, based on a true account. Miriam lives in hut 18, bed 22. She has little to eat and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531059375
• ISBN13: 9780531059371
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

abook to touch your heart

I had been putting together a collection of books for young readers on Holocaust themes for a school library when I found this book. It is so heartbreakingly brave, beautiful, and uplifting! The illustrations have a charming dignity. The fact of the camp existance is brought out gently, yet compellingly. Most of all, the book is a testimony of the triumph of the human heart. I highly recommend it to persons introducing the facts of that historical period to very young readers.

An amazing, powerful book about the Holocaust

I have used this book to teach my second and third grade students about the Holocaust. The story and the pictures bring to life the horror of the Holocaust and temper it with the hope for the future. The book has become one of my favorites. I strongly encourage anyone who teaches about the Holocaust to include this book in their collection.