The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse & Wendy Watson, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 2004. ISBN 0-439-43540-4
A young girl hides her Jewish identity and assimilates among non-Jews in Warsaw, Poland. However, she and other Jews have not forgotten the people behind the wall.
Media: Pencil, ink and watercolors
Q5/P4
5-8th
Curricular Connection: Level 5-8th; History, Social Studies, Language Arts.
D. Balestreri added to PB 7/25/09
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse and Wendy Watson, ill. New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-4394-3540-6
Annotation: The book chronicles a young Jewish girl and sister during World War II posing as Polish citizens and their work to outsmart Gestapo to provide much-needed to the Warsaw Ghetto.
Media: Pencil, ink, and watercolors.
Rating: 5Q/4P.
Curricular connections: History/Social Studies.
School level: Upper elementary, Middle school or junior high.
NP 07/04/09
Cats in Krasinski Square, The by Karen Hesse and Wendy Watson, ill. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
ISBN: 0-439-43540-4
A young girl in WWII Poland recounts how, with the help of dozens of street cats, she distracted the Gestapo and their dogs, and smuggled food to her friends in the Ghetto. Based on a true story.
Curricular Connection: Elementary School, subject: Holoacaust
Media: pencil, ink, and watercolors on Strathmore drawing paper
Rating: 5Q/5P
Posted by LA 4/6/8
Hesse, K. (2004). The cats in Krasinski Square. Illustrated by Wendy Watson. New
York: Scholastic Press. 0439435404
Watson’s pencil, ink, and watercolor illustrations contrast the horrors of Nazi-occupied Warsaw with hope from those of the Resistance. Based upon a true account, cats are recruited to thwart Nazi police from preventing food and supplies getting to the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. The tale is tense with the dangerous risks taken by those who wanted to save a people persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Rating: 5Q/3Q
A brilliant example of what life was like during the Nazi occupation in Poland, when Jews were being isolated and persecuted. Many people from other backgrounds risked their lives to help the Jews escape and/or survive. This story, inspired by an event that did indeed use cats to help get food and supplies to the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, offers lessons outside of the history and social studies textbook using an unusual plot and a study into human nature. TK 4/29/08
TK 4/20/08
Hesse, K. (2004). The cats in Krasinkski Square. Watson, W. New York: Scholastic Inc. 0439435404. 5Q/5P. The illustrations were created using pencil, ink and watercolors on Strathmore drawing paper.
During WWII a small Jewish girl in Poland, who passes for Aryan, aids her friends in a dangerous attempt to smuggle food into the Warsaw Ghetto.
* Grade: 6-8, Subject: World History, WWII
jw 05/06/08
Cats in Krasinski Square, by Karen Hesse and Wendy Watson, ill. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
ISBN: 978-0439435406
Annotation: Based on true events, this is the story of how the orphaned cats that wander the streets of Warsaw come to the aid of resistance fighters who are trying to smuggle food to the Jewish people held captive within the city’s ghetto.
Illustrations: pencil, ink, watercolors
4Q/4P
DM 6/13/09
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