190 pages . Anita Lobel: Survivor of WWII Anita Lobel: Holocaust Survivor On the Run Childhood Anita Lobel was born on June 2, 1934 to a middle-class merchant jewish family. This book is a momoir of a child who survived the Holocaust.
Reading Level ages 12-16. The early years of Anita Lobel’s life won’t be found in the many beautiful, intricate illustrations or words of her vast volume of award-winning and long-cherished children’s books. Living as a Jewish child in Kraków, Poland during the Holocaust Anita was faced with the toughest of challenges. Anita Lobel's disturbing memoir, ''No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War,'' a finalist for the National Book Award in young people's literature, is neither sentimental nor exploitative. For over 50 years, the Caldecott Honor Medal recipient Anita Lobel has been creating children’s book illustrations that are witty, fanciful, imaginative and light years away from the world where The message is that there is no meaning in this suffering." NO PRETTY PICTURES - Anita Lobel AWAY FROM HOME - Anita Lobel ON MARKET STREET - pictures by Anita Lobel; Words by Arnold Lobel SIX MILLION PAPER CLIPS - Peter Schroeder& Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand A HERO AND THE HOLOCAUST - Story of Janusz Korczak and hIs Children - David A. Adler PASSAGE TO FREEDOM - Sugihara story - Ken Mochizuki
Since coming to the United States as a teenager, Anita has spent her life makingpictures. As a child, Anita Lobel spent years hiding from the Nazis and trying to protect her little brother. In Toads and Dia-Drawing from her own memories of growing up as a European Jew during the Holocaust, Anita Lobel presents a dramatic statement on the meaningless of war and the power of human will as a means of survival.
LOBEL--Anita, 78, of Boca Raton, Florida and New York City, died on March 18, 2012, following a tragic accident.
National Book Award Finalist. She was born on June 3, 1934. Summary. Anita Lobel (née Kempler; born June 2, 1934) is a Polish-American illustrator of children's books, including On Market Street, written by her husband Arnold Lobel and a Caldecott Honor Book for illustration, A New Coat for Anna, Alison's Zinnia, and This Quiet Lady. Anita Lobel's name is synonymous with the best in children's literature. In fact, Lobel is adamant that she will not ''sanctify'' herself with ''the pride of victimhood.'' Anita Lobel, nee Kempler, was born June 3, 1934, in Krakow, Poland. Anita's father, the owner of a chocolate factory and a Jew, runs away in the middle of the night. She spent her childhood in hiding with her brother and their nanny, moving from countryside to ghetto to convent—where the Nazis finally caught up with them. The early years of Anita Lobel’s life won’t be found in the many beautiful, intricate illustrations or words of her vast volume of award-winning and long-cherished children’s books. Anita Lobel's name is synonymous with the best in children's literature. She is the creator of such classics as Alison's Zinnia and Away from Home, and she received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in On Market Street.She is the creator of two books about her cat, Nini, One Lighthouse, One Moon (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and Nini Here and There. in 1955. Anita's father made a good wage as shop owner and often took vacations to the countryside with her family and catholic The memoir, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow, 1998) is a clear and magnificent portrait of the author’s experience during the Holocaust. Maus - My Father Bleeds History and Maus II - And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman; VI: Websites. The storytelling frames it. Summary: In 1939, when Anita Lobel was five, German soldiers marched into Krakow. Anita is a Polish girl who has a brother, father and mother, and a nanny that watches over her. Anita Lobel was raised in one of the toughest places and times to be raised. More like this: Similar Items Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. Written by Anita Lobel. The book was reviewed in the One Lighthouse, One Moon, one of three books she created about her cat, Nini, is a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. She was a kindergarten teacher until her school was closed due to anti-Jewish laws, and at 24 she left home for the first time and went to Prague to be a governess for a wealthy Jewish family. 2000. A Caldecott-winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel … Holocaust Autobiography. The book was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award for Young People, and is a 1998 Sidney Taylor Honor Book for Older Readers. “In a wrong place at a wrong time.” Says Anita. Jewish Children in the Holocaust. Her life changed forever. The war just began when her father never returned from the store. Anita Lobel was born in Krakow, Poland.