num_pages: 56
description: When Aninku and Pepicek go to town for milk to make their sick mother better, their attempts to earn money by singing are thwarted by a bullying hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar. But with the help of three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, Aninku and Pepicek defeat the bully and return home triumphant. The story is based on a Czech opera performed numerous times by the children of the Nazi concentration camp Terezin.
language: English
title: Brundibar
titlecomplete: Brundibar
genres: 20th Century, Childrens, World War II, Plays, Music, Holocaust, Picture Books, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 523
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Bilderbuch
publisher: Walker Books