![]() ![]() Indeed, the prettiness of the telling and of the angel imagery (and the girl’s minimal losses) tends to bury the harder truth, as when the narrator “did not cry” at the seeming deaths of her comrades because she “knew they had flown off to be with the angels” overall, the effect is more fairy tale than slice of relentlessly tragic history. The girl’s narration, in ragged right margin prose, describes a resistance experience relatively unexplored in children’s literature, and veteran author Yolen gives her tale attractive smoothness. Certain that angels are guarding her family, the girl never loses hope that they will all will remain safe, even when Nazi troops pass close by or when climbing through snowy mountains to Spain. The once-friendly baker will no longer sell her or her younger brother croissants, her father loses his job, and the family leaves their home to seek refuge in the forest with other partisans. A young, unnamed Jewish girl finds her tranquil world upended when the Nazis occupy France. ![]()
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