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anna_banana_reads's review against another edition
4.0
This book is a cartoon about world war II. It's about a Jew who survived WWII. The Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Polish pigs, the Swiss deer, and the French frogs.
toeveryenemy's review against another edition
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5.0
This is such an important read that everyone should do at least once in their life. It's a book that's worth putting time into. You will be shocked, gripped by the book for it tells a story horribly real.
svetlanam's review against another edition
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5.0
One of the best book I have ever read
marlamorris's review against another edition
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4.5
_nicole__smyth's review against another edition
challenging
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funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
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4.75
shadow_cat94's review against another edition
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4.0
A brutally honest recount of a survivor's story through the holocaust with the masks of cats, mice, and dogs.
This book is quite charming in a variety of ways; the relationships depicted without much characterization, the use of animals for symbolism and to make the content more digestible, and the inclusion of keeping the speech in the father's imperfect English with his accent peeking through occassionally rather than the text being perfect all the way through.
This book is quite charming in a variety of ways; the relationships depicted without much characterization, the use of animals for symbolism and to make the content more digestible, and the inclusion of keeping the speech in the father's imperfect English with his accent peeking through occassionally rather than the text being perfect all the way through.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Alcohol
jeanphilli's review against another edition
5.0
We've had these two books for many years, I didn't really understand what they were. Since they looked like comic books they must be silly. My ignorance. I picked them up because some people wanting to ban them from public libraries. I couldn't stop reading them. The young man interviewing his hard to get along with father, who survived the Holocaust, was an extremely effective way to tell the story. Vladek Spiegelman and his family went through hell, many died horrific deaths. The Nazis committed evil beyond my comprehension. Its even more difficult to read today, as the wheel of history has turned and some in the U.S.A. show respect for these evil people.