Judith Kerr - Out of the Hitler Time trilogy - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Bombs on Aunt Dainty, A Small Person Far Away

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Bombs on Aunt Dainty

A Small Person Far Away

by

HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

The HarperCollins Children’s Books website address is www.harpercollins.co.uk

Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers 2019

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit:

First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1971

This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

Text and illustrations © Kerr-Kneal Productions Ltd 1971

Note from the author copyright © Judith Kerr 2008

Why You’ll Love This Book © Michael Morpurgo 2008

Cover design copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2017

Cover design and illustrations by Judith Kerr

Bombs on Aunt Dainty:

First published in Great Britain as The Other Way Round by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd in 1975

First published in Collins in 1998

First published in paperback as Bombs on Aunt Dainty by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2002

This edition first published in 2017

Text copyright © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1975

Cover design copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2017

Cover design and illustrations by Judith Kerr

A Small Person Far Away:

First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1978

First published in Lions in 1993 and reprinted by Collins in 1995

This edition first published in paperback by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

Text copyright © Kerr-Kneale Productions Ltd 1978, 1989

Cover design copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2017

Cover design and illustrations by Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.

Source ISBNs:

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit : 9780007380466 Bombs on Aunt Dainty : 9780007375714 A Small Person Far Away : 9780007385508

Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2019 ISBN: 9780007375721

Version: 2019–11–29

Cover Page

Title Page Out of the Hitler Time Trilogy When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Bombs on Aunt Dainty A Small Person Far Away by

Copyright

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Bombs on Aunt Dainty

A Small Person Far Away

A Note from the Author

About the Author

About the Publisher

by

For my parents Julia and Alfred Kerr

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Why You’ll Love This Book by Michael Morpurgo

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Judith Kerr is a writer with a unique talent. There is no one I think, who has managed to achieve what she has done, that is to create at least three masterpieces, each in a different genre, and not only that she has illustrated all of them herself.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea was recently chosen as the best picture book ever created. Told in her elegant, understated, almost matter of fact style, we are all left at the end (child and adult) believing in the possibility that the next knock on the door could herald the visit of the tiger, or an elephant, or a hippopotamus, the visitor might create certain difficulties, but that’s just life, these things happen.

Then there’s Mog, who along with Pooh and Paddington, Spot and Blue Kangaroo, has become a household character for parents and children. Unlike Judith’s Tiger, Mog is no fantasy. We have all known cats who behave like this. There’s no messing with Mog. This is a cat that gets into all sorts of scrapes and manages to survive, but it’s also a cat that washes himself, does his business and (after a lot more than 9 lives) ultimately even dies, a proper cat, a cat for all seasons, all households.

Had these extraordinary feline creatures been Judith Kerr’s entire life’s work, it would have been enough to establish her as one of very greatest and most beloved of all children’s writers/illustrators. But at about the same time as we first read about that tiger who so bizarrely came to tea, and about Mog too, Judith Kerr produced another book, to my mind her finest work. But this was a work of an entirely different kind, which has become one of the classics of children’s literature.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit , published forty years ago, speaks to us of a time most of us know only through books of history and fiction, through archive film, as well as through movies. It is from The Diary of Anne Frank to I am David and Schindlers List and The Pianist that most of us have our haunting but distant insights into the lives of those who had experienced the terrors and horrors of Nazi persecution and extermination. Most universally known, undoubtedly, is The Diary of Anne Frank. The power of Anne Frank’s story is that we know it is true, that these are her words, her thoughts, her feelings. Miraculously they survived. Tragically, she did not. Imagine for one moment that the Frank family had somehow managed to escape, to find their way to England and safety. Imagine Anne Frank had lived. What would her diary have told us then? The truth is that many thousands like Anne did find their way to safety and a new life. Happily for us, Judith Kerr was one of these.