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Brundibar / retold by Tony Kushner ; pictures by Maurice Sendak ; after the opera by Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.U778 B78 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kushner, Tony
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Krása, Hans, 1899-1944. Brundibár--Juvenile literature.
- Krása, Hans.
- Operas--Stories, plots, etc--Juvenile literature.
- Operas.
- Librettos--Juvenile literature.
- Librettos.
- Siblings--Juvenile literature.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Bullies--Juvenile literature.
- Bullies.
- Genre:
- Stories, plots, etc.
- Plot summaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.
- Summary:
- Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.
- ISBN:
- 0786809043
- OCLC:
- 53235759
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