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Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
By Meg Wiviott and Josée Bisaillon
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Benno was the neighborhood's favorite cat.
During the week, he napped in a sunny corner of Mitzi Stein's dress shop and begged scrapped from Moshe the butcher. But one night in Berlin, the Nazis changed everything. Life would never be the same.
This cat's-eye view introduces the Holocaust to children in a gentle way that can open discussion of this period.
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Meg Wiviott
Meg Wiviott grew up in New Jersey. She attended the University of Wisconsin where she majored in history, and earned a Master's degree in Education from Northwestern University. She is working on a Master's of Fine Arts degree at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in their Writing for Children and Young Adults program. Meg and her husband have two grown children and live in New Jersey.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kritallnacht from a cat's perspective. Well done and excellent way of introducing a heavy topic to younger readers. Great illustrations.
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