Epinions Recent Reviews for Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: All of Denmark was a Star

Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:47:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author quasar - And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws

The Fuhrer they say grows impatient

"How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free

After three years of kind occupation?"

We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: A Lesson in Life and Fighting Evil

Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:04:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pambo -

This book provides a wonderful opportunity for both kids and parents to read a good story together and study history from a children's perspective.

I always enjoyed reading historical novels, even as a kid, and my daughter, who...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: A Not-Totally-Grim Tale from the Land of Hans Christian Andersen

Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:25:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author majenta - Not even the homeland of Hans Christian Andersen was untouched by tragedy, including tragedy perpetrated by the Nazis. Even before 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen, her little sister Kirsti, and their friend Ellen Rosen are stopped by street-corner...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: Makes Me Proud of my Danish Ancestry.

Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:32:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lactavist - I received this book from an unlikely source. My 65 year old father. His reading interests usually are limited almost exclusively to Sci-Fi and Kurt Vonnegut. So I was surprised when he handed me this book which was obviously a childs book. He told...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: Number the Stars: A Light in Times of Darkness

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:19:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jrk - How many nine-year-olds know where Denmark is? Or even what it is? How many of them know that Denmark surrendered to the Germans in 1940? Or that the Nazis occupied this small kingdom? What are Nazis anyway? And aren't kingdoms just magical places in...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: Wrenching and Wonderful

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 02:20:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author serc - Having been hugely impressed with Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal winning novel, The Giver, I decided to read her other Newbery Medal winner (1990), Number the Stars. I was not disappointed.

While the story is composed of...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: The Stars Shine Brightly

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:19:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Teach2755 - Teaching children about the Holocaust is not an easy thing to do.. especially 90 12 year old children.. in the year 2000. World War II is as far removed to them as the Civil War or even Ancient Rome. Most sixth graders enter my classroom never having...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: A Child's First Step to Understanding the Holocaust

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:44:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I thought that I had made a mistake. I had taken my daughter, aged 9, to the movies and we saw Jakob the Liar. The previews didn't seems to have anything in it that would suggest it was anything but some guy making the worst of a crappy...

Lois Lowry - Number the Stars: Literature Guide: Trading Places?

Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:16:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lansky2000 - Lois Lowry tackled a hairy beast when she slammed the architects of the Holocaust into the realm of kiddie books. Yet she did it with such style and finesse that the Nazis become man-eating ogres, Annemarie and Ellen are best friends trying to outwit the...