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- Lepman, Jella--Juvenile literature
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| Title Statement | Jella Lepman and her library of dreams: the woman who rescued a generation of children and founded the world's largest children's library / Katherine Paterson ; illustrated by Sally Deng. |
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| Author | Paterson, Katherine |
| Additional Contributors | Deng, Sally |
| Publication | San Francisco: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books,[2025]©2025 |
| Extent of Item | 104 pages |
| ISBN | 9781452182629 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07662948 |
| Summary | This is the story of Jella Lepman, who escaped the Nazi regime in Germany and returned after the war to build a travelling library of books for children that evolved into the International Youth Library in Munich. |
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| By Topic | Children's librarians--Biography--Juvenile literature--Germany--Munich |
| Children's libraries--Juvenile literature--History--20th century--Germany--Munich | |
| Children--Juvenile literature--Books and reading | |
| Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Juvenile literature--Germany | |
| By Name | Lepman, Jella |
| Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich, Germany)--Juvenile literature--History | |
| By Location | Munich (Germany)--Juvenile literature |
| By Genre | Biographies |
