Irene Wittig

An Amusing Alphabet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pre-schoolers and their parents will enjoy the alliterative phrases and whimsical illustrations that accompany each letter in this charming alphabet book. Children are challenged to find additional objects in the illustrations that aren't mentioned in the phrases.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Irene Wittig
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 221mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781088176689
• ISBN-10: 1088176682
• Artikelnr.: 68431791

Autorenporträt

I was born in liberated Rome to a half-Jewish Viennese mother who had found a modicum of safety in Italy after the Nazi annexation of Austria. My early childhood was spent changing countries and languages until we arrived in New York. There, from age seven, I lived in a Manhattan neighborhood of Holocaust survivors and fellow Europeans displaced by war. I absorbed their memories of betrayals and sacrifice, of courage and difficult decisions, of strangers' kindnesses and sheer luck. I came to understand that their gratitude for having found safety in America was tinged with longing for the lives they'd once loved and had been forced to give up. I learned that the past is never quite past. These lingering shadows of all that had been lost are what inspired me to write ALL THAT LINGERS - yet, in writing the novel I found myself reflecting on what my family's life might have been like had they not been able to leave Vienna.