austria

"Customs and traditions of the Christmas holidays as celebrated in Austria and its capital, Vienna. Includes crafts, recipes, and carols"--Provided by publisher.

"More than six decades after the end of World War II, twelve-year-old Charlie, a budding musician, searches for clues about her violin-prodigy namesake's fate"--Provided by publisher.

Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.

"Roudinesco traces [Sigmund] Freud's life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland ... Alert to his intellectual complexity--the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved--Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations look at what it is like living in Austria.

Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.

Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762, where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.

In 1938 Trudi Kanter was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She was stunningly beautiful, chic, charismatic, and frequented the most elegant cafes with her many suitors. She flew to Paris regularly to see the latest fashions. She soon fell deeply in love with businessman Walter Ehrlich. As Hitler's tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed. Their flight from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London details her courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance that kept them both safe. Found in a secondhand bookshop in London and first published in 1984, this book gives readers a second chance to discover Trudi's story. She died in 1992.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Austria"--.

Explores the myths and theories surrounding Adolf Hitler's life, and attempts to explain why he killed thousands of Jews during World War II.