gilljames 's review for:

One Day: A True Story of Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Rosen

4.0

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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It’s difficult to decide who might be the reader of this book. It certainly looks like a children’s picture book but isn’t suitable for the pre-school reader.  Even if you shared it with a child who is learning about the Holocaust at school (Key Stage 3, Year 9?) this may not meet the right reader; the story is about adults, not children. Yet the story is simply told. 

There is a note form Michael Rosen at the end and a short biography of both him and the illustrator Benjamin Phillips. 

The book is meant to bring some hope.  The main characters survive  the Holocaust but it isn’t  easy. 

This works exactly as a picture book for younger children with more story in the pictures. 

Perhaps we need to become like French  readers and value picture books for adults.