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Rose Blanche
Ian McEwan
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Description for Rose Blanche
Paperback. When Rose sees a little boy trying to escape from the back of a truck, only to be captured and shoved back in, she decides to follow the truck. At a desolate place out of town she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire fence. Illustrator(s): Innocenti, Roberto. Num Pages: 32 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AF; YBC; YFC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 278 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 186.
Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little boy escaping from the back of a truck, only to be captured by the mayor and shoved back into it. Rose follows the truck to a desolate place out of town, where she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire ... Read more
Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little boy escaping from the back of a truck, only to be captured by the mayor and shoved back into it. Rose follows the truck to a desolate place out of town, where she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Random House Children's Publishers UK United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099439509
SKU
V9780099439509
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About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan (Author) Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; ... Read more
Reviews for Rose Blanche
Offers the consolation, that goodness, even when unrecorded, is still worth celebrating
Amanda Craig
The Times
Illustrated wth extraordinary, haunting pictures
Rebecca Abrams
Daily Telegraph
A modern fairy tale that does not flinch at reality
Quentin Blake
Independent
Bleak but rewarding
The School Librarian
Amanda Craig
The Times
Illustrated wth extraordinary, haunting pictures
Rebecca Abrams
Daily Telegraph
A modern fairy tale that does not flinch at reality
Quentin Blake
Independent
Bleak but rewarding
The School Librarian