Germany (also includes books on the Holocaust):

Picture book list (True Stories):

• In the New World: A Family in Two Centuries

• The Singer and the Scientist

• Jars of Hope

• Nicky and Vera

• The Whispering Town

• Benno and the Night of Broken Glass

• Flight for Freedom: The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany

• Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber

• Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

• The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman

• Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place

• The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World

• Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust

• Hedy’s Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust

• Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane

• The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank’s Window (Fictionalized narrative of real incidents)

• Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop

• Clever Hans: The True Story of the Counting, Adding, and Time-Telling Horse

• Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport

Picture book list (Fiction):

• Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust

• Benno and the Night of Broken Glass

• Wall

Picture book list (Folktales):

• The First Gingerbread House

• The Story of the Root Children

• The Story of the Wind Children

• The Story of the Butterfly Children

• The Story of the Snow Children

• The Princess in the Forest

• Cobweb Christmas

• Brothers Grimm: The Most Beloved Fairy Tales

• Little Red Riding Hood (My First Fairy Tales)

• Hansel and Gretel

• The Elves and The Shoemaker

• Rumpelsteltskin

• Snow White

Picture book list (Factual):

• This is Munich

• Germany (Countries Around the World)

• Germany (All Around the World)

Chapter book list

• A Night Divided

• What Was the Berlin Wall?

• Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany

Graphic novels

• Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust

• The Other Side of the Wall (Recommend for teens and up)