Rose Blanche

Author: Ian McEwan

Illustrator: Roberto Innocenti

Publisher: Penguin

COLLECTION

Literature

THEMES

Empathy and Kindness Feelings The World Wars

YEAR GROUP

Years 5 and 6

BOOK TYPE

Corebooks Power of Reading

An exceptionally moving picture book in which the reader views the sorrow of war through a young girl’s eyes. Rose Blanche discovers a concentration camp full of children in the forest near her home town and silently takes food to them for the remainder of the war. Heartbreakingly, there is no happy ending for Rose Blanche. Roberto Innocenti’s illustrations create a powerful and eloquent text.

Older readers may be interested to go on to:

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (9780141315188), Penguin £7.99

Morris Gleitzman: Once (9780141320632), Puffin £6.99 and its sequels