Full name: The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak

Author: Tomek Bogacki Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Children, Picture books, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374341367 0374341362

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, with evocative acrylic illustrations and spare, poignant prose, 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. Similar books: Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren Anne Frank by Josephine Poole Luba by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick The Pages In Between by Erin Einhorn Hidden Child of the Holocaust by Stacy Cretzmeyer A Hero and the Holocaust by David A. Adler The Big Lie by Isabella Leitner Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner Memories of Anne Frank by Alison Leslie Gold Such Good Girls by R. D. Rosen The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Gross Treasures from the Attic by Mirjam Pressler The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton