The Midnight Zoo (Hardcover)

from Karyn_Ainsworth

I am undecided about this book. I sympathised with the animals and the Rom children, and wanted to find out what happened to them, but I was left unsatisfied with the end. The setting hinted at but never named is the 2nd World War in Europe, and there was little uplifting in that situation. There...

from Whisper1

Set in WWII, two young (Rom) gypsy boys witness the killing of their community by the hands of soldiers. Deep in the woods, they seek refuge. Walking by night and hiding my day they adhere to their mother's last works "run!" They carry a bundle containing their baby sister. While it would have be...

from librarybrandy

Hartnett's writing is still pretty good, but I really haven't enjoyed most of her work for younger readers--it's so much more straightforward and to-the-point. This just lacked something her other books have, the feeling of her other books--that surreal wandering that makes her stories so compell...

from alana_leigh

A strange and heartbreaking tale, The Midnight Zoo is the latest literary gem from author Sonya Hartnett and features lovely illustrations by Andrea Offermann. Two young boys, Andrej and his younger brother Tomas, are walking through a war-ravaged countryside, scrounging up whatever they can to s...

from Eurekas

This book is not a children's book, maybe a young adult could handle it, but many of the themes are brutally realistic. It centers around three gypsy children whose parents are murdered by german soldiers. Only Uncle Marin and a child of the tribe are killed in the narrative, but it is obvious th...