So they follow a story about a girl their age, caught in a frightening situation, who must make decisions. And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular. What choice would I have made?Īnd ten-the age of Annemarie in Number the Stars, and the approximate age of most of the book’s readers-is an age when young people are beginning to develop a strong set of personal ethics. Would I have done that? they ask themselves as they follow a fictional character through a novel. I think readers of every age match themselves against the protagonists of books they love. But Number the Stars seems to have acquired its own long and vibrant life not a day goes by that I don’t hear from a passionate reader of the book-some of them parents who remember it from their childhood and are now reading it with their own children. Most books published that long ago have faded into a pleasant, undisturbed retirement on dusty library shelves, or become an occasional topic for a research paper. It seems like yesterday that I answered the phone on a snowy January morning and received the news that it had been awarded the 1990 Newbery Medal. It’s hard to believe that I wrote Number the Stars more than twenty years ago. World War, 1939–1945-Denmark-Juvenile fiction. Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.ġ.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1989.Īll rights reserved.
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