The Barefoot Book of Heroines ¦ The Barefoot Book of Heroes
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Cover Story
This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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The Barefoot Book of Heroines
The Barefoot Book of Heroes
'The barefoot child symbolises the human being whose natural integrity and capacity for action are unimpaired.' This extract from the half title pageof The Barefoot Book of Heroines encapsulates the spirit of these two beautifully produced books.
Hazell offers a very personal selection of twelve heroes (from Shakespeare to Sequoyah) and twelve heroines (from Joan of Arc to Frida Kahlo), chosen for their ability to bring to bear their own special qualities on life's challenges.
The books follow an identical pattern, summarising life achievements and setting them within an historical perspective, with maps providing relevant geographical information. This format provides a readily accessible structure and would facilitate study for top junior/lower secondary pupils.
Hazell's graceful and stylised illustrations are strikingly rendered in bright, appealing colours.
These two books would make fine additions to a class library and their robust covers will withstand constant use.
