Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig (author) (UK edition)

April, 1940. Nazi troops are flooding into Denmark. With soldiers on the doorstep, 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. All the same, Bamse and his daring friend Anton just can’t resist playing the odd practical joke on the invading soldiers! But then Bamse realises that Anton is in terrible danger. Can he help to save his best friend from the Nazis? Before long, Bamse and his bohemian family are taking part in one of history’s most dramatic rescues – smuggling Denmark’s Jewish population across the water to safety in Sweden. Inspired by the stories that Sandi Toksvig heard her father tell, this remarkable novel is a vivid account of war in the domestic and social sphere. Gently heroic and comic, but also thought-provoking and serious, it is ultimately a tale of ordinary people finding a way to resist evil.

“Exciting, funny and moving … amazing” Sunday Telegraph

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780440866626

Publisher

Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Date published

July 6th, 2006

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.4; Middle years; 6.0 points

Other details

304 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

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bookaholic202
on 6 March 2014

This book really was not for me. I found it really boring.
TwilightTeamEdward
on 27 January 2013

I really love this book. it made me want to find out about WW2 and Jews and about the Nazi’s.

5out of 5

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Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig (author) (UK edition)