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Story of Bodri (The)
by Hedi Fried
Age Range: 9-11
Bodri, the eponymous dog in The Story of Bodri, is a loyal, lovable bystander of the events of a significant historical period for one particular family. In Linda Schenck’s translation of Swedish author Hédi Fried’s autobiographical depiction of her experience as a Jewish child facing the horrors of the Holocaust, young readers are told that this topic is “hard to talk about and hard to hear about” but, alas, Fried, and other survivors “go on telling everyone about what happened…so that it will never happen again.”
Swedish designer and artist Stina Wirsén’s watercolour illustrations, with their bold outlines reminiscent of the 1940s, and joyful and grim colours contrast to portray the child’s perspective of making sense of a nightmare-turned-reality. Young Fried and her family are forced to stay inside, not play with friends, leave their home to go to a concentration camp, starve, and watch others around them not survive. Instead of dwelling solely on Hitler’s evil scheme, Fried centres her story on themes of friendship and perseverance during hard times.
Catherine Hurwitz (Oct 2021)