Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
John Boyne is Irish, which means that in his home country, the title of this book is spelled The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Fancy, right?
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Sadly, the deaths of Bruno and Shmuel aren't exceptional at all. All told, close to 1.5 million children were killed during the Holocaust, both Jews and non-Jews alike.
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Boyne doesn't just write, he also reads—and some of his favorite children's authors include Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens (in particular his orphan books), and Richard Adams's Watership Down.
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