Jackie French Books

This book is beautifully illustrated capturing the attention of both my 8 year and my teenager. The advanture of this little dragon and his companion is fanciful and delightful. The characters are sweet and interesting. A lesson is learned in the writing this book and it is easily written for those 4 - 8 year of age to understand and possible read themselves.

We have already purchased Vol. 2 of this whimsical series. We hope Jackie French Koller continues this wonderful adventure and we look forward to Vol. 3. If you want to read a fun and interesting story to your child this is the book for you.

This book is helpful for young writers, with exercises in between page after page of Jackie's dazzling stories!

The reason why I gave this book 4 stars was because it is the kind of book that I like, its mysterious and gives a lot of details. As difference to the other books this one is very easy to read and has few words I didnt understood. Also something that I liked of this book was that it was a fiction book, and it was a very interesting book too.

When Little Tracey has a hard time on the second day of school last year, Anna tells her about a game that her grandma taught her. You would make up a character and someone would make a story about it. They'd play the game every week until Tracey got used to riding the bus.So one day Anna tells a story about Hitler and Mark likes the story but Ben thinks its dumb. Mark get sucked into the story and puts himself in the shoes of Hitler child. Read this book to find out the whole story and why Mark got into it the book so much. Anna, Mark, Ben, and Little Tracey all go to this little bus shelter that fits exactly four people. Mark always shows up firsts then its Anna with Little Tracey in the green truck. Ben later comes and they all stand under the shelter when it rains. Anna goes on about how Hitler keeps his daughter hidden because she isn't the perfect Aryan race. Little Tracey named her Heidi as Anna went on. Heidi has a big birthmark across her face and has Hitler dark skin complection. She has short dark hair and she is a short girl. Heidi never got to go anywhere, she has only been in a car, once when Hitler shows her the pond and the geese. Until later on when Hitler trusted nanny, Fraulein Gelder was told that her and Heidi had to go. There was a car that had their luggage, a car that had them in it, and a motorbike that followed after the two cars. Anna stops the story as the bus pulls up and Mark begins to ask everyone about Hitler. Mark asked Mr. McDonald do kids have to be like there parents? He tells him that he inherits the same attitude but what you decide to do with it is your choice. He later then goes on and asks his dad about the same thing. Anna later finishes the story and Mark has a dream about Heidi's life. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to keep the same setting most of the book. T his is a book for someone who doesn't care what they read.

I liked how they created the game and made it seem like it was the cure to Little Tracey's fears of riding the bus. Anna suggested that they play a game that he and her grandmother always played. Ben had a suggestion about it being on World War Two but Anna says it is up to Tracey. Tracey wants to talk about goldfish, and horses. Anna made up a story everyday until Little Tracey got used to riding the bus. Tracey was always shy and she was called Little Tracey because she looks like an ankle bitter. When ever it rains is when the game is played and that is how we got into the Hitler story.

I also liked how the made Heidi a real character in the book. Anna tells the story so well that it is like two books in one. She starts off saying that Hitler has a daughter and that she isn't pretty so he keeps her hidden away. He buys her dolls but she doesn't like half of them because they are perfect and she isn't. She cries in the night time because she thinks that Hitler will only love her if she look the way the dolls do. She only was in a car once until Hitler told the nanny to bring herself and Heidi to a small house. That's where Heidi met the Leib's. She and Fraulein Gelder never ate meat untill they moved. They mostly had pig but on occasions the had rabbit.

I also liked how Mark got really interested in the story. Mark wanted Anna to show up early the next day so that she could finish it. He invited everybody but Ben because he will keep interrupting Anna. So it was Anna, Little Tracey, and Mark at the bus stop early. On Friday, Anna continued the story but Mark was upset that it was Friday and he would have to wait until Monday to find out the rest. The life of Heidi Hitler stayed on his mind and he had a dream about it. It was all of the four chanting for Hitler and Mark was yelling this is wrong but no sound came out of his mouth. He yelled stop it and then the dream stopped.


In conclusion , Heidi runs away and she find this lady and a little boy. The two wonder where Heidi's mother was and she told them that she didn't have one. They offered for Heidi to come with them and she accepted. The little boy was telling Heidi about how is sister Helga was killed by Russians. They asked her name and the boy said his name was Johannes Schmidt. Later Johannes and his dad Frau were sent to concentration caps in Berlin. That was the end but the other three asked question about what would happen next .Anna had no answers so she said The End. This book didn't have anything exciting in it. I didn't keep me interested but I did think something was going to occur when it didn't. It was a book with lots of vivid vocabulary. I give this book one thumb up and one thumb down!

M.Sanchious

Hitler's Daughter is enjoyingly depressing. Jackie French has a way with children's novels. The characters are shaped wonderfully, especially Mark.