Just So Stories

Walker Books

February 2025

ISBN13:9781529515985

Australia RRP:$27.99

New Zealand RRP:$29.99

Michael Rosen has long been one of the UK’s most acclaimed authors of children’s books. His range of genres is astonishing from the comic to the serious. And his most serious are those books that pertain to the Holocaust, a subject with which Michael has close associations having lost family members during those dark and dreadful times.

This biography, partnered with Benjamin Phillips, tells of the true story of one survivor in a way that is relatable for all readers, and while it doesn’t withhold facts, it does tell the history in a sensitive mode that will be enable younger readers to absorb the meaning without undue graphic or triggering explicitness.

It is powerful and absorbing, and Eugène Handschuh‘s story of courage, resilience, determination and survival is an inspiration -is a true testament to the indomitable human spirit that is so often revealed in the very darkest of moments of history.

It’s a survival story that remains pertinent even today as so much of the world order is in a constant flux of disorder, destruction and dominant evil forces. What better time to share such a story of a courageous life?

As a tribute to our ANZACS who also faced impossible odds and to those Holocaust survivors – and to those who are struggling today under the threat of extinction by genocides and cruelty, even in supposedly democratic and liberal countries, it is an important read.

An absolutely essential title for your collection, whether primary or secondary and certainly an apt one for the parlous times in which we find ourselves. A 5 🕎🕎🕎🕎🕎rating – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם – Shalom aleichem.