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Amis, Nancy

The Orphans of Normandy: A True Story of World War II Told through Drawings by Children

48 pp. | Atheneum | June, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-689-84143-4 $$17.95
(4) 4-6 Captioned colored-pencil drawings by French schoolgirls tell the story of the girls' evacuation from their orphanage in 1944 and subsequent journey on foot to safer territory more than a hundred miles south. The pictures are variously charming and dutiful; their explanatory captions are translated on each opposing page. Although the actual narrative is slender and incomplete, the documentary nature of the book is certainly effective.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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