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Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin

2000 | Holiday House

SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Book, Nonfiction for 2000
2001 Notable Book for a Global Society by the Children's Literature and Special Interest Group of the Intl Reading Assoc.
Honor Book in the 2000 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers

Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People for 2001
Booklist Top Ten Youth Art Books for 2000
Trumpet Book Club, April 2000
CCBC Choices 2001
2001 Children's Literature Council of So. CA
Selected by California readers for the 2005 California Collections
Selected for 2006 California Collections for High School

 

 

 

Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.