Some Germans, like Anna’s father, became so worried about the future they took their families and moved to a new world. This story begins in Germany in the year 1933, a time in that country’s history when many of its citizens were being denied personal freedoms and it was dangerous for anyone to speak out against such injustice.

If you haven’t read it before, do, it will warm your heart.

What more can I say? From Anna is a lovely book. It is as fresh and real as it ever was, but I have aged, and as I reread Anna’s story I found myself repeatedly blinking back tears. I remember that I had really liked the book more than twenty-five years ago, but I was unprepared for my response to the story this time around.

Jean Little has been a special friend of mine for many years, and I first read From Anna in the earliest years of our friendship. If you are an outsider, longing for love and understanding … If you are forced to leave the only home you know to move to a strange new setting, this is your book. If you are teased by your more able siblings or put down at school, this is your book. If you, or a loved one, are struggling with an unrecognized disability, this is your book. If you long for a book about a strong, loving family (and they are rare these days), this is your book. For forty years now, young Anna Solden has been warming the hearts of readers of every age and description. Jean Little has often been called “Canada’s most beloved writer of children’s literature,” and one has only to read From Anna to understand why. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher, Scholastic Canada Ltd., 604 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1E1, Canada. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read this e-book on-screen. Interior illustrations copyright © 1972 by Joan Sandin.Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Introduction © 2012 by Katherine Paterson. Private Bag 94407, Botany, Manukau 2163, New ZealandĮuston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1DB, UK 604 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1E1, Canada

From Anna by Jean Little