Out of the Hitler Time trilogy: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Bombs on Aunt Dainty, A Small Person Far Away
An omnibus edition of Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Bombs on Aunt Dainty and A Small Person Far Away, we see the world through Anna’s eyes as she grows up – from her much loved family to Hitler’s holocaust.Anna was a German child when she had to flee from the Nazis before the War. By the time the bombs began to fall she was a stateless adolescent in London, and after it was all over she became a happily married Englishwoman who thought she had put the past behind her.This omnibus edition of the three volumes of Judith Kerr’s Hitler trilogy, tells her story beginning with the rise of Hitler in 1933 through to her return to Berlin years after the war.
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Out of the Hitler Time Trilogy
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Bombs on Aunt Dainty A Small Person Far Away
by
Judith Kerr
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit:
First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1971
This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2008
Text and illustrations © Kerr-Kneal Productions Ltd 1971
Note from the author copyright © Judith Kerr 2008
Why You’ll Love This Book © Michael Morpurgo 2008
Cover photographs © Judith Kerr
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers
Bombs on Aunt Dainty:
Text © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1975
Cover photographs © Hulton Archive (London), Judith Kerr (Girl)
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers
A Small Person Far Away:
Text © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1978, 1989
Cover photographs © Akg, London (Berlin), Judith Kerr (woman)
Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers
Judith Kerr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBNs:
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: 9780007380466 Bombs on Aunt Dainty: 9780007375714 A Small Person Far Away: 9780007385508
Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2015 ISBN: 9780007375721
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Contents
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by
Judith Kerr
For my parents Julia and Alfred Kerr
Judith Kerr is a writer with a unique talent. There is no one I think, who has managed to achieve what she has done, that is to create at least three masterpieces, each in a different genre, and not only that she has illustrated all of them herself.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea was recently chosen as the best picture book ever created. Told in her elegant, understated, almost matter of fact style, we are all left at the end (child and adult) believing in the possibility that the next knock on the door could herald the visit of the tiger, or an elephant, or a hippopotamus, the visitor might create certain difficulties, but that’s just life, these things happen.
Then there’s Mog, who along with Pooh and Paddington, Spot and Blue Kangaroo, has become a household character for parents and children. Unlike Judith’s Tiger, Mog is no fantasy. We have all known cats who behave like this. There’s no messing with Mog. This is a cat that gets into all sorts of scrapes and manages to survive, but it’s also a cat that washes himself, does his business and (after a lot more than 9 lives) ultimately even dies, a proper cat, a cat for all seasons, all households.
Had these extraordinary feline creatures been Judith Kerr’s entire life’s work, it would have been enough to establish her as one of very greatest and most beloved of all children’s writers/illustrators. But at about the same time as we first read about that tiger who so bizarrely came to tea, and about Mog too, Judith Kerr produced another book, to my mind her finest work. But this was a work of an entirely different kind, which has become one of the classics of children’s literature.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, published forty years ago, speaks to us of a time most of us know only through books of history and fiction, through archive film, as well as through movies. It is from The Diary of Anne Frank to I am David and Schindlers List and The Pianist that most of us have our haunting but distant insights into the lives of those who had experienced the terrors and horrors of Nazi persecution and extermination. Most universally known, undoubtedly, is The Diary of Anne Frank.
