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The House by the Lake

The House by the Lake

Published: 3 Sep 2020

Hardback, 48 pages

Recommended for age 7+ , 9+ and 11+

By Thomas Harding

Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup

Published by Walker Books Ltd

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A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugee experience and a Stasi informant: in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door.

Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.

Tagged Berlin , buildings and architecture , Cold War , Germany , remembrance , The Holocaust , time , top pick and war and conflict

Read our review on justimagine.co.uk