If you were just to look at the illustrations of this book and not the story, you might think it will be a happy tale. The illustrations are reminiscent of Charles Schultz and Ziggy. That soft rounded style of cartoon characters, but inside the pages it holds a sad and heartfelt story about a woman who helped rescue kids from the Ghettos of Poland during the war. While Irena was a real person, the tale is told as fiction because the authors admit that there are conflicting “facts” of her story. Either way this is an excellent read. It can fit in with books like Maux, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the Devil’s Arithmetic. It is approachable for any age of reader, and extremely well done.