Symbolic reference to the anti-Nazi White Rose Movement in Germany heighten the impact of a brief allegory in which a village child secretly shares food with prisoners in a nearby concentration camp. A provocative and somber 11¼" x 8½" book of paintings and a brief text chronicle the odyssey of an innocent child as she witnesses and subsequently responds to individual and corporate evils of the Hitler regime. (Age 9 and older)

In wartime Germany, Rose Blanche witnesses the mistreatment of a little boy, and follows the truck that takes him to a camp. Secretly, Rose Blanche brings him and other children food. An excellent book to use not only to teach about the Holocaust, but also about living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty.--School Library Journal. Full color.