{"id":44924,"date":"2025-03-21T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44924"},"modified":"2025-03-21T23:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:21:25","slug":"review-of-the-girl-who-sang-by-estelle-nadel-and-sammy-savos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44924","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Girl Who Sang, by Estelle Nadel and Sammy Savos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Girl Who Sang<\/p>\n

A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival<\/em><\/p>\n

by Estelle Nadel
\nwith Sammy Savos and Bethany Strout
\nart by Sammy Savos<\/p>\n

Roaring Brook Press, 2024. 264 pages.
\nReview written February 18, 2025, from a library book.
\nStarred Review
\n2025 Sidney Taylor Gold Medal, Middle Grades
\n2025 Sibert Honor Book
\n2025 Best Children’s Graphic Novels Top Ten<\/p>\n

The Girl Who Sang<\/em> is a memoir about the Holocaust in graphic novel form. And yes, rather amazingly, the author makes it a story of hope and survival.<\/p>\n

Enia was the youngest of five kids living on a farm in a village in Poland. But then the Germans came, and they had to go into hiding. Enia ended up hiding in different attics from when she was five to when she was ten. And she lost all but two of her brothers during the war.<\/p>\n

But she makes this book about the good people who helped save their lives along the way, and about the joy of being free after the war and building a new life in America.<\/p>\n

And through all of it, she has always loved to sing.<\/p>\n

This book did tear my heart into pieces, and I sure didn’t think the little girl would survive in spots. But this tells the story from a child’s viewpoint, and can be a way to tell children about that dark time in history.<\/p>\n

sammysavos.com<\/a>
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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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