![]() In Paris, Anna’s impractical mother distracts her from a homework crisis by buying her a luxurious, chestnut-filled pastry, a small act of impulsive kindness that means they cannot afford fish for supper. Really Anna should feel honoured.” A few days later Anna sees Max in the village, throwing unripe apples at a girl. “When they’re in love with anyone they throw things at them. “It’s what they do here,” says her brother Max. In Switzerland, Anna is taught to yodel and the boys pelt her with pebbles. The first is a literal one, in which the problems of temporary lodgings, making new friends and adapting to strange languages and cultures are described with a stoical humour. Though on the surface this is a simple refugee story, seen through the eyes of a small girl, there are really three journeys in Pink Rabbit. ![]() It makes me rather sad.”) But soon that life is gone, as first her father and then Anna, her mother and brother flee to Switzerland, then on to France and finally to England. ![]() (“You hardly ever hear of two famous people in the same family. ![]() We first meet her alter ego, Anna, as a precocious nine-year-old whose only problem appears to be negotiating the consequences of having a famous writer for a father. Published in 1971, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is the first in a trilogy of autobiographical novels that the bestselling author and illustrator wrote to explain her early life to her own children. ![]()
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