Gwen Strauss. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-23929-7
Poet and children’s author Strauss (The Hiding Days) delivers a brisk yet uneven group biography of nine women who resisted the Nazis in WWII. They include Hélène Podliasky, the author’s great aunt; Nicole Clarence, a Jewish radio operator; and...
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Gwen Strauss. St. Martin’s, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-28574-4
Historian Strauss (The Nine) offers a striking biography of two political dissidents who developed an intimate relationship while interned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp during WWII. Czech writer Milena Jesenská had been Kafka’s lover (in...
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Gwen Strauss, illus. by Herb Leonard. Pelican, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4556-2265-8
In what she describes as a work of creative nonfiction, Strauss (Ruth and the Green Book, written with Calvin Alexander Ramsey) offers a tense recounting of how her great-uncle, Daniel Bénédite, helped keep artists, writers, and other refugees...
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Gwen Strauss, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (30p) ISBN 978-0-679-82384-1
The Night Shimmy is Eric's friend: he explains why Eric can't eat his peas (Eric himself prefers not to talk) and keeps the boy company when the other children tease him about his shyness. When Eric meets Marcia, who accepts him as he is, the Night...
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Gwen Strauss, Author, Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-80582-3
Strauss explores ``the theme of metamorphosis in fairy tales'' in this stunning collection of 12 dramatic monologues by familiar fairy tale characters at a moment of crisis or confrontation. The voices in these poems are both strong and complex, and
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