Nicky & Vera. Storia di un eroe discreto della Shoa e dei 669 bambini che salvò

I really get choked up by the quiet, competent, and humble heroes like Nicholas Winton, those folks who just do a thing that needs doing. And that he persisted, saving one Jewish child after another from the Nazis, until his list grew to over six hundred names leaves me awestruck. Peter Sís tells the Leggi tutto

Beautiful, deceptively simple. Peter Sis's illustrations are perfect for this story, the true story of how one Englishman organized the trains that brought so many Jewish children to safety in England at the start of WWII. Includes a more direct biography of both Nicky and Vera (one of the children

I remember reading about Nicholas "Nicky" Winton (1909-2015) while I was doing some dissertation research on Czechoslovakia. Nicholas is credited with saving 669 children in 1938, separate and apart from those children saved through the Kindertransport program. Now, Nicholas's act of heroism has bee Leggi tutto

The remarkable story of Nicholas "Nicky" Winton. An English banker, Winton was asked to skip a ski vacation and come to Prague in 1938, where he was convinced to help save Jewish children, including Vera, who left her entire family in Czechoslovakia. Winton is widely credited with saving 669 childre Leggi tutto

I had read the news reports of the grown-up children meeting "Nicky" in a surprise meeting and I am glad to get a concise and clear version of just what a hero Nicholas Winton truly was for these children. How heartbreaking it is to read of that last trainload who were unable to get out before the b Leggi tutto

NICKY E VERA Storia di un eroe discreto della Shoah e dei 669 bambini che salvò è un libro per bambini e ragazzi straordinario che racconta dell’impegno e del coraggio di un grande uomo, un racconto che non può lasciarci indifferenti. https://ilmondodichri.com/nicky-e-vera/

With the suspension of the Goodreads Choice 2021 Picture Book category, I was of mixed feelings; first, my family yearly rates all the nominees, but we had in recent years been less impressed with the nominees (which Rod Brown found were often published by Amazon subsidiaries). So I consulted a coup Leggi tutto

This is a deceptively simply told story, illustrated with deceptively naïve images both exquisitely combined to tell the story of Nicky (Sir Nicholas Winton) and Vera, a young Jewish child from a village outside Prague. Nicky was an unassuming British born man of Jewish heritage who, while on a visi Leggi tutto

This was such a good book. I have seen the video of "Nicky" online several times but didn't realize this book was about him. We watched the video after we finished the book - such an amazing story.