LitPick Review
The Search.by Eric Heuvel.New York:Farrar Straus Giroux,May 2009.61 pages. This book is about World War 2 during the Holocaust and a grandmother's family and friends who hear her unfold her saddening past as a Jewish girl growing up in Germany at this horrifying time in history.
Opinion:
The author's viewpoint was from the grandmother who was explaining to her best friend, her grandson, her own son, and her friend's grandson about the events in her young life in Germany. The author created characters to explain the events and plots of the Holocaust in a single situation way of one main person named Esther,the grandmother, and what had happened in her scenario. The facts about the Holocaust were also mentioned while Esther was explaining to her family and friends.For example Auchswitz concentration camp was the larger camp ever built. Esther dove into her story while visiting the farm where she had hidden as a child. Groups of younger readers would like this book because of the pictures and that they would not have to imagine the scenes since the graphics are already there.I was surprised because I had never really read an informational graphic novel when I had received the book. This book fits under the genre historical fiction.
