Nicky Vera

Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781324015758

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Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís Pdf

A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.

Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781324015741

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Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís Pdf

A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547346166

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A Day's Work by Eve Bunting Pdf

Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.

Author : Muriel Emanuel,Vera Gissing
Publisher : Mitchell Vallentine
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bankers
ISBN : UOM:39076002463581

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Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation by Muriel Emanuel,Vera Gissing Pdf

"For half a century these children, now dispersed and in their sixties and seventies, were unaware of the person to whom they owed their lives. To Winton, it was 'just a job'. Even his wife knew nothing of what is undoubtably his greatest achievement, until 1988, when clearing out the attic she came across documentation relating to the episode. From that moment, Winton's life was never the same again.".

Author : Caroline McAlister
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250765260

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Finding Narnia by Caroline McAlister Pdf

Finding Narnia is Caroline McAlister and Jessica Lanan's captivating picture book biography of two brothers, Jack and Warnie Lewis, whose rich imaginations led to the creation of the magical world of Narnia. Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe had no end? Years later, Jack began to think about what could be beyond that wardrobe, and about a girl named Lucy and her siblings. This picture book biography introduces the beloved creator of The Chronicles of Narnia to a new generation of children who see hidden magic in the world around them.

Author : Vera Gissing
Publisher : Robson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861059868

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Pearls of Childhood by Vera Gissing Pdf

In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.

Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366489

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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (TCG Edition) by Lynn Nottage Pdf

A new comedy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ruined.

Author : Bob Pflugfelder,Steve Hockensmith
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781594746628

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Nick and Tesla and the High-Voltage Danger Lab by Bob Pflugfelder,Steve Hockensmith Pdf

Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they’re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It’s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own—engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt burglar alarms, electromagnets, mobile tracking devices, and more. Readers are invited to join in the fun as each story contains instructions and blueprints for five different projects. In Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab, we meet the characters and learn how to make everything from rocket launchers to soda-powered vehicles. Learning about science has never been so dangerous—or so much fun!

Author : Lisa Wheeler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984814340

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Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler Pdf

Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals from acclaimed author of The Christmas Boot Lisa Wheeler and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Love Loren Long All across this great big world, jobs are getting done by many hands in many lands. It takes much more than ONE. Gorgeously written and illustrated, this is an eye-opening exploration of the many types of work that go into building our world--from the making of a bridge to a wind farm, an amusement park, and even the very picture book that you are reading. An architect may dream up the plans for a house, but someone has to actually work the saws and pound the nails. This book is a thank-you to the skilled women and men who work tirelessly to see our dreams brought to life.

Author : Matej Mináč
Publisher : American Friends of Czech Re
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN : 0979202604

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Nicholas Winton's Lottery of Life by Matej Mináč Pdf

Author : Monique Elseviers,Björn Wettermark,Anna Birna Almarsdóttir,Morten Andersen,Ria Benko,Marion Bennie,Irene Eriksson,Brian Godman,Janet Krska,Elisabetta Poluzzi,Kstja Taxis,Vera Vlahovic-Palcevski,Robert Vander Stichele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118949788

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Drug Utilization Research by Monique Elseviers,Björn Wettermark,Anna Birna Almarsdóttir,Morten Andersen,Ria Benko,Marion Bennie,Irene Eriksson,Brian Godman,Janet Krska,Elisabetta Poluzzi,Kstja Taxis,Vera Vlahovic-Palcevski,Robert Vander Stichele Pdf

Drug Utilization Research (DUR) is an eclectic scientific discipline, integrating descriptive and analytical methods for the quantification, understanding and evaluation of the processes of prescribing, dispensing and consumption of medicines and for the testing of interventions to enhance the quality of these processes. The discipline is closely related and linked mainly to the broader field of pharmacoepidemiology, but also to health outcomes research, pharmacovigilance and health economics. Drug Utilization Research is a unique, practical guide to the assessment and evaluation of prescribing practices and to interventions to improve the use of medicines in populations. Edited by an international expert team from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), DUR is the only title to cover both the methodology and applications of drug utilization research and covers areas such as health policy, specific populations, therapeutics and adherence.

Author : Deborah Oppenheimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Germans
ISBN : 9781408892275

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Into the Arms of Strangers by Deborah Oppenheimer Pdf

The story of what it was like to grow up Jewish in Nazi Germany, to escape danger and fear, and also to leave family and friends, on the British Kindertransport scheme. Among the voices we hear are those of two of the organisers, an English foster mother, and 13 surviving children.

Author : Prof. Michael Berkowitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520940680

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The Crime of My Very Existence by Prof. Michael Berkowitz Pdf

The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe.

Author : Colleen Paeff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534449305

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The Great Stink by Colleen Paeff Pdf

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book! Discover the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem in this funny, accessible nonfiction picture book featuring engaging art from the illustrator of Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine. It’s the summer of 1858, and London’s River Thames STINKS. What is creating this revolting smell? The answer is gross: the river is full of poop. But the smell isn’t the worst problem. Every few years, cholera breaks out, and thousands of people die. Could there be a connection between the foul water and the deadly disease? One engineer dreams of making London a cleaner, healthier place. His name is Joseph Bazalgette. His grand plan to create a new sewer system to clean the river is an engineering marvel. And his sewers will save lives. Nothing stinky about that. With tips for how to prevent pollution today, this fascinating look at science, history, and what one person can do to create change will impress and astound readers who want to help make their planet a cleaner, happier place to live.

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534457287

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Light for All by Margarita Engle Pdf

A lyrical and unifying picture book that “will inspire young readers” and “magnificently showcases the immigrant experience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) in America from Newbery Honoree Margarita Engle and award-winning illustrator Raúl Colón. Discover the myriad contributions that all immigrants have made as they come to join family or start their own lives together in a new country they call home. Coming with their hopes, dreams, and determination, generations of immigrants have made the fabric of this country diverse, vivid, and welcoming. This vibrant and timely celebration demonstrates the thousands of immigrants who built America and the importance of having acceptance and light for everyone.