Brundibar
By Tony Kushner; Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
(Michael Di Capua Books, Hardcover, 9780786809042, 56pp.)
Publication Date: November 1, 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: General
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When Aninku and Pepicek discover one morning that their mother is sick, they rush to town for milk to make her better. Their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying, bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who tyrannizes the town square and chases all other street musicians away. Befriended by three intelligent talking animals and three hundred helpful schoolkids, brother and sister sing for the money to buy the milk, defeat the bully, and triumphantly return home. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp












