Brundibar

By Tony Kushner

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Opera, Street musicians, Theresienstadt (Concentration camp), Operas, juvenile literature, Bullies in fiction, Bullies, Singing, Bullying, Fiction, Musicians, Musicians in fiction, Animals, Juvenile materials, Librettos, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Stories, plots, Operas, Picture books, Brundibár (Krása, Hans)

Description: Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning. The doctor says they need to buy her milk to make her better, but they have no money. They try to make some by singing in the town square, but a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. With the help of three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, they defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.