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Reader reviewed by Meg

When I first saw that this book used mice to represent Jews during the holocaust, I was a little taken aback, and I wasn't sure if I thought that it would be respectful to Jewish survivors. But I think that, in the end, using mice instead of drawings of people was really effective. Drawing the characters as mice instead of humans didn't affect the emotions that came up as I read the story. By the end of the book I had totally forgotten about the whole mice thing, and I was just totally absorbed in the story. And it turned out that there were many ways in which using mice enhanced the story. I think that this book should be a must read for anyone studying the holocaust