Publishers: Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier

Ravensburger Buchverlag was founded in 1883 by Otto Maier and publishes children’s and young adult books for all ages. The blue triangle is a guarantor for products of high quality. Ravensburger publishes storybooks for small children, books for first readers, and children’s non-fiction. They publish around 450 books per year, and more than 1,900 titles are available.

 

 

Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier GmbH

Robert-Bosch-Str. 1, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany

Contact: Florence Roux, Head of Foreign Rights

Tel: +49 (0) 751 – 86 – 12 40

E-mail: florence.roux@ravensburger.de

www.foreignrights-ravensburger.com

Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street

anne c voorhoeve liverpool street
Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier
February 2008 / 480pp
Children’s & Young Adults’

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review

Ten-year-old Ziska (Franziska Mangold) never dares to touch the bannisters as she goes upstairs to her flat in Berlin. You can never know. One Sunday you are sitting happily in the park with your parents. Then on Monday it is all of a sudden forbidden. The whole park: ‘No Jews or dogs’. She has learned that she is a Jew, although her parents are Protestants. Now she and her best friend Bekka (Rebecca Liebich) are hounded by the children who used to be their friends. Ziska is attacked. Rescued by a boy from her school, Ruben Seydenstücker, and taken to his home, she is amazed by the family – her first experience of orthodox Jews, so-called Ostjuden, their rituals, their extreme poverty, and their kindness.

Contained within this framework is a whole slice of prewar and wartime history, from Kristallnacht to Auschwitz, from the Kindertransport taking Jewish children to safety in England (hence the title ‘Liverpool Street’) to the varied fortunes of the young refugees, and from wartime sacrifices to deportations to the Isle of Man.

This stark, exciting and deeply moving novel portrays the growing up of a young girl amongst scenes of great tragedy. It is a magnificent effort, brave in every sense.

press quotes

‘There is nothing comparable in children’s or teen literature.’– Berliner Zeitung

‘Penetrating and deeply touching writing.’– Nürnberger Nachrichten

‘A very special reading experience’– 1000 und 1 Buch

about the author

Anne C. Voorhoeve was born in 1963 in Germany. She studied Political Science, American Studies and Ancient History at the University of Mainz and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. She has worked as a newspaper and book editor, in public relations for a Lutheran monastery, and since 2000 as a freelance writer.

rights information

Rights sold:
English worldwide; French worldwide.

Translation rights available from:
Ravensburger Buchverlag
Otto Maier GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Straße 1
88214 Ravensburg, Germany
Tel: +49 751-861240
Email: Florence.Christ@ravensburger.de
Contact: Florence Christ
www.foreignrights-ravensburger.com

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