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Summary: Orphans of Normandy
Review: A sincerely told story shown through a picturial diary by orphan girls during the invasion of the coast of Normandy. The drawings are detailed and the story piognant, Illustrating their walk through battle torn France, finding their way to safer ground. There is a French version of the book, by the same author in collaboration with Mia Certic and a preface by Simone Veil. This version has actual quotes from the orphans as they remember the details of their journey 60 years later.
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Summary: An inspiring story told in pictures!
Review: For every girl who ever wanted an adventure about brave girls, this is a real one, it really did happen.The War has been raging for five long years & when the Allies land in Normandy, one hundred girls are driven out of their orphanage, the only home they have known, by the harried German soldiers & forced to trek on foot to a safer place, some 150 miles away in the south. Told in pencil crayon drawings, like samplers girls used to stitch, we enter their beloved world: their classrooms, sewing room, kitchen garden, chicken house; their orchard & milk cows, & their dormitory where the girls watch airraids in the sky outside of their windows. & then their journey begins, into a forest, across a war-torn land & through ruined villages, these brave children walk in their red, white & blue dresses, carrying only a blanket, some bread & little white flags of peace. RebeccasReads recommends THE ORPHANS OF NORMANDY as a jewel. If how girls draw the world is of any interest to you, you will be enchanted & awed by the picture story they tell. Within each page the girls wrote of what they saw (in French, naturally) & opposite is a clear & simple English translation.
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