The Lion and the Unicorn

Shirley Hughes First published 1998

About this book

When Lenny Levi's father goes off to fight in the Second World War, his son has to learn to be brave: brave when bombs are dropped on his street in London, brave when he's evacuated to a big house in the country, and brave when spiteful children tease him and call him names.This beautiful book will strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt homesick and alone. Full of detail and character, it embraces the past and the present with unique poignancy and power.

Subjects

  • courage
  • fiction
  • jews
  • juvenile fiction
  • world war, 1939-1945