Hid­den Child is sim­ply but ele­gant­ly told and has an unusu­al illus­tra­tive style. It is a com­bi­na­tion of graph­ic non-fic­tion, inter­spersed with pages of text and pho­tographs. Isaac Mill­man (then Sztrym­fan), was sev­en when his moth­er bribed a jail­er to take him to safe­ty at a near­by hos­pi­tal. When Isaac had to leave the hos­pi­tal, he was picked up from the side­walk in front of his apart­ment house by a Pol­ish Jew­ish woman named Hena. She had con­tacts with Chris­tians, who, from var­i­ous moti­va­tions— finan­cial to moral — would har­bor Jew­ish chil­dren. He was shut­tled from city to coun­try­side, expe­ri­enc­ing cru­el­ty with one fam­i­ly paid to keep him, but ulti­mate­ly shel­tered by a won­der­ful woman who changed his name to ​“Jean” and treat­ed him like a son. Read the rest of the book your­self so you can enjoy the illus­trat­ed pages full of sketchy pint size illus­tra­tions, attrac­tive­ly col­ored, with hand-writ­ten descrip­tions. I found myself won­der­ing — who is this Mill­man— this vir­tu­oso author and illus­tra­tor who describes the tragedy of his fam­i­ly and his own expe­ri­ences, yet main­tains humor when describ­ing some of his boy­hood expe­ri­ences? He hap­pens to be a well-known author/​illustrator, but this is his first book about his Holo­caust expe­ri­ences as a hid­den child. Well done! For ages 11 – 16.