She’s billeted in one unhappy situation after another in London and Wales, often with sponsors scornful of refugees. Fuzzily drawn, gray-toned panels make her fear and loneliness palpable. Marianne is in the dark about her future, literally and figuratively. Nine chapters shape Marianne’s journey, each beginning with a map on a stark black page that seems to loom over a year of wartime bleakness. Author and illustrator show their collaborative finesse in a wonderfully rendered marriage between text and art. Sandwiched in between is a straightforward, first-person telling of Marianne Kohn’s story as she holds out hope of a reunion with her parents. Endpapers offer a hopeful hint of her mother’s soft embrace as she looks at the starry night sky. On the cover, a girl sits forlornly on a suitcase under the bold black title against a background of Nazi red. In a follow-up to Good-bye Marianne (1998), Watts and Shoemaker continue their adaptation of Watts’ 2000 novel, Remember Me. An 11-year-old Jewish girl travels alone from Berlin to Great Britain in the Kindertransport of 1938.
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