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Anyone who has read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” must definitely read this memoir of a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl, Elli Friedmann, who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz with her mother.
While “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” records the events of the Holocaust from a young [...]

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Kids who grew up watching Laura, Mary, baby Carrie and their Ma, Caroline and Pa, Charles of the 1980s TV series “The Little House on the Prairie” starring Melissa Gilbert will definitely enjoy reading this book, written by Laura herself.
I bought this full-colour collector’s edition from Borders at RM32.90 – a treasure because almost every [...]

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“Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcasts in Communist China. Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his family’s ‘crimes’, he could never be more than a poor farmer…
China’s Cultural Revolution took place from [...]

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This book was from a budget buy and my sister and I are still undecided as to who bought it. In any case, I was immediately drawn by the stripy dust jacket and catchy title.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is one of those hard-to-put-down books especially as the story begins with the life of [...]

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