Twenty and Ten

A powerful look at an unforgettable era in history “If we take these children, we can never betray them, no matter what the Nazis do.” During the German occupation of France, twenty French children were brought to a refuge in the mountains. One day a young man came to their school with a request: Could they take in, and hide, ten Jewish refugee children? Sister Gabriel spoke up. “The Nazis are looking for those children. If we take them we must never let on they are here. Do you understand?” Of course the children understood—but how would they hide them if the Nazis came?

Children's Books

Bishop, Claire Huchet

Joly, Janet

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

Martin de Porres, hero

Houghton/Mifflin

The Five Chinese Brothers

The classic picture book about five clever brothers, each with a different extraordinary ability, has been in print for almost 80 years. "An original nonsense tale told with...spirit and gusto." -- The Horn Book

G.P.Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers'

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.

Demco Media

Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether.Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.

The Man Who Lost His Head: 2

Humor

Dutton Juvenile

All Alone

After climbing the high slopes of the French Alps to tend his family's cows, ten-year-old Marcel is faced with a difficult dilemma--obey his father or help a friend.

Viking Juvenile

The Big Loop: 2

The Man Who Lost his Head

Pancakes-Paris

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Twenty and Ten

Martin de Porres, hero

The Five Chinese Brothers

Twenty and Ten

The Five Chinese Brothers

The Man Who Lost His Head: 2

All Alone

The Big Loop: 2

The Man Who Lost his Head

Pancakes-Paris