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Jella Lepman and her library of dreams : the woman who rescued a generation of children and founded the world's largest children's library
(2025)
By: Paterson, Katherine

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/020/LEPMAN,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies J/BIOGRAPHY/020/LEPMAN,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
San Francisco : Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books, [2025]
©2025
DESCRIPTION

104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781452182629, 1452182620 :, 1452182620, 9781452182629
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

This is the story of Jella Lepman, who escaped the Nazi regime in Germany and returned after the war to build a traveling library of books for children that evolved into the International Youth Library in Munich

Ages 5-8

1050L

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Deng, Sally, illustrator.

Additional Titles

TITLES

Woman who rescued a generation of children and founded the world's largest children's library

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SUBJECTS

Lepman, Jella

Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich, Germany) -- History

Children's librarians -- Germany -- Munich -- Biography

Children's librarians -- Germany -- Munich

Children's libraries -- Germany -- Munich -- History -- 20th century

Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany

Librarians -- Biography

Libraries

Children -- Books and reading

Reconstruction (1939-1951)

Munich (Germany)

Illustrated works.

Biographies.

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