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  1. Her best known book is I Am David (1963), adapted for a 2003 film; (also published as North to Freedom), which tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a concentration camp and travels through Europe. It won the ALA Notable Book award in 1965, the 1963 Best Scandinavian Children's Book award and the Boys Club of America Junior Book ...

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  2. Apr 26, 2021 · We’ll come back to that question. Anne Holm, a Danish journalist and author, wrote this novel in 1963 about a twelve-year-old boy who grew up in a concentration camp in Eastern Europe and remembers nothing else. David’s life and outlook are uniformly grim. He has never even smiled.

  3. David comes ashore and finds a cave and sets up a makeshift home before exploring the town below the cliff. People start to wonder who he is and he tells them he is with a traveling circus. However, their suspicion makes him uneasy and he decides to head north. Gradually David's life outside camp changes him.

  4. Apr 13, 2015 · I am David by Anne Holm. April 13, 2015. As an RE teacher who also dabbled in teaching English to year 9, I found this book to be a cross over in my interests and one which deeply moved the pupils (and myself). Theologians sometimes talk of ‘keeping the rumour of God alive.’.

  5. Overview. I Am David by Anne Holm is a children’s historical fiction novel written in 1963. It was originally written in Danish but has since been translated into many languages, including English, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, and Konkani. It was first published in the United States under the name North to ...

  6. I Am David by Anne Holm. Buy I Am David by Anne Holm at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. Category: Teens. Reviewer: Jill Murphy. Summary: Not particularly effective as an adventure story, I Am David is a story of the victims of war and of the effects of censorship. It has some difficult ideas and some scenes that may shock the little ones.

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  8. Jan 10, 2021 · Anne Holm ‘I am David’. This idea of freedom permeates David's journey, from beginning to end, He seeks to be free from anything that keeps him from being everything he is, everything he can be, and everything he wants to be. There are lots of important messages in this book which are relevant today regardless of age.

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