![]() ![]() It feels entirely natural when the animals begin to speak. The plight of the two children and their baby sister is incredibly moving, and the older reader will guess at the terrible events waiting to be revealed at the heart of the story. Sonya Hartnett’s writing is beautiful, often surprising, yet always clear and simple – particularly when drama and emotion are at their height. The entire story takes place during the course of this one moonlit night, and explores the nature of freedom, of captivity, and of our responsibility to one another. ![]() At night they come to a bombed town, where nothing but rubble remains and all the people have gone, and there they find a small zoo where the animals are still trapped in their cages, without food or water. The youngest boy carries on his back a sack containing their baby sister, only a few weeks old and entirely dependent on her brothers. In an unnamed East European country, during World War II, two young Roma brothers wander through a devastated landscape, looking for food and shelter. ![]()
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