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The Dollmaker of Krakow

Amazon.com Price:  $6.60 (as of 05/05/2019 06:16 PST- Details)

Description

In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to live to tell the tale even in the darkest of times.
 
In the land of dolls, there’s magic.
In the land of humans, there’s war.
Everywhere there’s pain.
But together there’s hope.
 
Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But if a odd wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an bizarre power and a marked past.
 
The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter—that may be, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him.
 
But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they’re made up our minds to lend a hand save them, it doesn’t matter what the risks.


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