Brundibar
By: retold by Tony Kushner ; pictures by Maurice Sendak ; after the opera by Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister.
Contributors: Sendak, Maurice.; Hoffmeister, Adolf, 1902-1973.; Krása, Hans, 1899-1944.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Subjects: Krása, Hans, -- 1899-1944. -- Juvenile literature; Operas -- Juvenile literature; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning. The doctor says they need to buy her milk to make her better, but they have no money. They try to make some by singing in the town square, but a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. With the help of three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, they defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.