Brundibar, Hardcover

Awards🏆
Notable (2003) - Sydney Taylor Book Award - (Older Readers)
Winner (2003) - Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) - (Gold)

Contributor(s):

• Author: Tony Kushner
• Illustrator: Maurice Sendak

When Aninku and Pepicek discover one morning that their mother is sick, they rush to town for milk to make her better. Their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying, bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who tyrannizes the town square and chases all other street musicians away. Befriended by three intelligent talking animals and three hundred helpful schoolkids, brother and sister sing for the money to buy the milk, defeat the bully, and triumphantly return home. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp
 
Review citations

• BookPage - pg. 30 - 10/01/2003
• Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 72 - 11/03/2003
• Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 72 - 11/03/2003
• Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 72 - 11/03/2003
• Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 72 - 11/03/2003
• Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - pg. 72 - 11/03/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 1312 - 11/01/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 1312 - 11/01/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 1312 - 11/01/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 1312 - 11/01/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children / Highly Recommended - pg. 1312 - 11/01/2003
• Kirkus Review - Children - pg. 1404 - 12/01/2003
• Booklist - pg. 602 - 11/15/2003
• Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks - pg. 155 - 12/01/2003
• Horn Book Magazine - pg. 69 - 01/01/2004
• School Library Journal / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 118 - 12/01/2003
• School Library Journal / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 118 - 12/01/2003
• School Library Journal / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 118 - 12/01/2003
• School Library Journal / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 118 - 12/01/2003
• School Library Journal / Highly Recommended - pg. 118 - 12/01/2003
• New York Times - pg. 22 - 11/16/2003
• Voice of Youth Advocates - pg. 48 - 04/01/2004
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Superior - pg. 48 - 07/01/2003
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Good - pg. 48 - 07/01/2003
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Reviewed - More Editing Needed - pg. 48 - 07/01/2003
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Superior - pg. 48 - 01/01/2004
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Good - pg. 48 - 01/01/2004
• Hornbook Guide to Children / Reviewed - More Editing Needed - pg. 48 - 01/01/2004