The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

World Book Night 2014 Books Announced

26 November 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

The last year has certainly passed by in a flash. It seems only a couple of weeks since I was giving out copies of The No1 Ladies Detective Agency for World Book Night 2013 and now the list of books for World Book Night 2014 has been released. It’s an interesting list…

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: 59 Seconds, A Collection of Short Stories, Adele Parks, After the Funeral, Agatha Christie, Andy McNab, Armistead Maupin, Ben Aaronovitch, Benjamin Daniels, Bernardine Evaristo, Black Hills, Confessions of a GP, Dreda Say Mitchell, Four Warned, Geezer Girls, Getting Rid of Matthew, Gorky Park, Hello Mum, Jane Fallon, Jeffrey Archer, John Boyne, John Grisham, Martin Cruz Smith, Matt Haig, Nora Roberts, Peter James, Professor Richard Wiseman, Rivers of London, Roald Dahl, Robert Muchamore, Sathnam Sanghera, Tales of the City, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, The Boy with the Topknot, The Humans, The Perfect Murder, The Recruit, Theodore Boone, Today Everything Changes, WBN, WBN 2014, Whatever It Takes, World Book Night, World Book Night 2014

Skokie

26 January 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

January 27th marks Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering 67 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet forces in 1945. Here in the UK the aim of the Day is to remember all of the victims of Nazi persecution….

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Danny Kaye, freedom of speech, HMD, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust survivors, John Rubinstein, Nazis, Schindler's List, Skokie, Speak Up Speak Out, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, The Pianist

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

14 November 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

Holocaust Memorial Day is coming up in just a couple of months and across the country schools, libraries and community groups are already planning how to commemorate this important day. I know that in a lot of places John Boyne’s novel The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas will be used….

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Amber Beattie, Asa Butterfield, Auschwitz, concentration camps, David Thewliss, discrimination, extermination camps, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Day, Jack Scanlon, Mark Herman, Nazis, Rupert Friend, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, Theresienstadt, Vera Farmiga