The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

A personal powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country's best-loved children’s authors.. By turns charming shocking and heart-breaking this is the true story of Michael Rosen’s search for his relatives who “went missing” during the Second World War – told through prose poetry maps and pictures. When Michael was growing up stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. They were there before the war his dad would say and weren’t after. Over many years Michael tried to find out exactly what happened: he interviewed family members scoured the internet pored over books and traveled to America and France. The story he uncovered was one of terrible persecution – and it has inspired his poetry for years since. Here poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children about the Holocaust.