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Francesco Tirelli's ice cream shop

One winter in Budapest during the Second World War, an Italian closes his ice cream shop for the season, using the storefront to hide his Jewish friends and neighbors, including a boy named Peter. Based on a true story.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meir, Tamar, 1976- (Author)
Other Authors:	Albert, Yael (Illustrator), Applebaum, Noga (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Hebrew
Published:	Minneapolis : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2019]
Series:	Holocaust
Subjects:	Tirelli, Francesco, > 1898-1954 > Juvenile nonfiction. Creative nonfiction > Juvenile. Biographies > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	One winter in Budapest during the Second World War, an Italian closes his ice cream shop for the season, using the storefront to hide his Jewish friends and neighbors, including a boy named Peter. Based on a true story.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN:	9781541534650 1541534654 9781541534742 1541534743
Author Notes:	Tamar Meir holds degrees in Talmud and Jewish philosophy, and a PhD in literature from Bar-Ilan University. She is head of the Literature Department at the Givat Washington College of Education and teaches at Efrata College and at Bar-Ilan University. This is her first children's book. It has won both the Yad Vashem Prize and the Devorah Omer Prize for Children's Literature. Tamar lives in Israel. Yael Albert is an illustrator based in Tel-Aviv. She was born and raised in Israel, where she graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.