The author has a very descriptive writing style and explains a lot of the emotional issues she faced because of her experience. After liberation she is taken to Sweden, reunited with her family, and recovers physically from her ordeal. During the last few months of the war she experiences all of the horrors of the concentration camps and the death march just prior to the concentration camps being liberated.

After moving from place to place in hiding and having almost no contact with her mother or father, she is captured by the Nazi’s and taken to a concentration camp. She went into hiding with her Christian nanny, who ironically does not like Jews, but wants to protect the author and her brother so she claims they are her children. This is a non-fiction book written by a Jewish woman who was five years old when WW II started. Since coming to the United States as a teenager, Anita Lobel has spent her life making pictures.

Sent by the Red Cross to recuperate in Sweden, she slowly blossomed as she discovered books and language and art. She was imprisoned in a succession of concentration camps until the end of the war.

She spent the days of her childhood in hiding with her brother-who was disguised as a girl-and their Catholic nanny in the countryside, the ghetto, and finally in a convent where the Nazis caught up with her. Poised, forthright, and always ready to embrace life, Anita Lobel is the main character in the most personal story she will ever tell.Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Krakow, Poland, changing her life forever. This haunting book, illustrated with the author's archival photographs, is the remarkable account of her life during those years. Anita Lobel was barely five when the war began and sixteen by the time she came to America from Sweden, where she had been sent to recover at the end of the war. The beloved Caldecott Honor artist now recounts a tale of vastly different kind - her own achingly potent memoir of a childhood of flight, imprisonment, and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland.

No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel