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| Grade 3-6–An exquisite re-creation of an old man's life. The book begins as a boy visits his grandfather in the hospital (Grandpa loved telling stories. He told me stories whenever I went to visit him…) and then moves into the man's narrative of his charmed life, a life, as the wonderful gouache-and-ink illustrations emphasize, protected by the actions of the stone angel that stood in the town square. His boyhood included encounters with Nazi storm troopers (I was never a coward, although I didn't know how dangerous times were back then) and unimaginable losses (One day, [his Jewish friend] disappeared. I never saw him again, which made me very sad). Still, the elderly man concludes, All in all, it's been a beautiful life. The book is very difficult to classify–the starkly poetic text is perfectly paired with illustrations that gently add details to the story. The artwork has the loose but accurate compassion of Quentin Blake's work, and, like Blake, Bauer expresses both humor and pathos. Michael Foreman's War Boy (Pavilion, 2000) describes an English childhood during World War II; Grandpa's Angel captures part of the German wartime experience. It is a book to savor for its magical humanity.–Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
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| I first saw this book on a trip in Thailand. I was mesmerized by the story, even without the words in English (it was in the original German). When I saw that it was translated into English I was thrilled and immediately picked up a copy.
This book has beautiful art with masterful layered storytelling that melds words and pictures together. |
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