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Author:

Bogacki, Tomasz.

Title:

The champion of children : the story of Janusz Korczak / Tomek Bogacki.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Korczak, Janusz,--1878-1942.
Jews--Poland--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Poland--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

"Frances Foster Books."

Summary:

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly newspaper. Even when Korczak was forced to move the orphanage into the Warsaw Ghetto after Hitler's rise to power, and couldn't afford to buy food and medicine for his charges, he never lost sight of his ideals. Fully committed to giving his children as much love as possible during a terrifying time, Korczak refused to abandon them. In his most beautiful and heartfelt book to date, Tomek Bogacki tells the story of a courageous man who, during one of the grimmest moments in world history, dedicated his life's work, and ultimately his life itself, to children.

ISBN:

0374341362
9780374341367

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225852373

LCCN:

2008016188

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)