Fania's Heart

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Fania's Heart
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Author Anne Renaud
IllustratorRichard Rudnicki
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's picture book
Published2018 (Second Story Press)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN 9781772600575
OCLC 1000050916

Fania's Heart is a 2018 children's picture book by Anne Renaud. Based on a true story, it is about a girl, Sorale, who finds a small handmade book amongst her mother's possessions, and is then told the story behind it. The original book is held at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. [1]

Reception

Dina Weinstein, who reviewed Fania's Heart for Jewish Book Council, wrote "The inspiring story, which takes place in one of the most demeaning of settings, shows that even the powerless can provide hope and warmth to one other." [2]

Fania's Heart has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews , [3] Quill & Quire , [4] CM: Canadian Review of Materials, [5] School Library Journal , [6] and Resource Links. [7]

It won the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Children and Youth Fiction. [8]

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References

  1. "Fania Faniner's Heart from Auschwitz". museeholocauste.ca. Montreal Holocaust Museum. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  2. Dina Weinstein. "Fania's Heart". jewishbookcouncil.org. Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  3. "Fania's Heart". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2019. Expressive but incomplete; share it with other Holocaust books or lots of caregiver context.
  4. Emily Donaldson. "Reviews: Fania's Heart, The Promise". Quill & Quire. St. Joseph Media. Retrieved 15 April 2019. .. a simple story, movingly told.
  5. "Fania's Heart". CM: Canadian Review of Materials. CM Association. 24 (19). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2019. Fania's Heart joins the list of valuable biographies that should be found in school and classroom libraries everywhere.
  6. "Fania's Heart". School Library Journal. Media Source Inc. 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2019. An additional purchase, perhaps of special interest to those with access to the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
  7. "Fania's Heart". Resource Links. 24 (1): 37. October 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  8. "Award Winners 2018". cjlawards.ca. CJL Awards. Retrieved 15 April 2019.