Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Harmonica

A young boy and his parents fill their home singing with the gramophone using music as a language of family love. When the Nazis invade Poland, the family is separated by adults and children into two concentration camps. The boy plays a harmonica his father gave him to bring back memories of this parents dancing to music by the composer Schubert. A commandant orders the boy to play his harmonica which he does, but not for the commandant. He tries to play loudly to comfort the starving people in the concentration camp.

Johnston, Tony

Charlesbridge

2004

Mazellan, Ron

1-57091-547-4

Watertown, MA

2004

Abstract provided by Valerie A. Ubbes, 2018