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libwithattitude 's review for:
The Harmonica
by Tony Johnston
A gorgeous, achingly beautiful and devastatingly evocative picture book that is based on a true story. A boy lives happily with his parents , playing his harmonica and sharing a love of Schubert with one. One day the Nazis come and the family is split up, with the boy being taken to a concentration camp. There he is forced to play for the camp commandant and feels very guilty about this until he realises other prisoners love hearing his music. The way the illustrations change from warm tones to dark in the second half of the story is very clever and I'm not ashamed to say this book did bring a tear to my eye.