The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum
Used | Paperback
In a day when in-depth history is rarely taught to children, and when its lessons are often regarded as ambiguous, this book speaks with piercing clarity about moral response.
Over the Verhagen home the giant wings of the windmill visibly signify a guardian presence. Carved on the front of the windmill is a picture of a trumpeting angel. One night, escaping from his enemy, Joris races homeward. Approaching the mill, he pants, “The Watchman…Winged Watchman…guardian angel!” He flings himself upon one of the enormous moving wings, is flung upward, and—by skillful maneuvers—he manages to evade his pursuer.
Set during the Nazi occupation of Holland, this book gives us a child’s viewpoint, Joris Verhagen. With Joris we feel outrage at wrongs done. Cruel laws, hunted people, misery, the utter villainy of an informer; but a burning determination to resist and to help one another, often at great cost.
Used | Paperback
In a day when in-depth history is rarely taught to children, and when its lessons are often regarded as ambiguous, this book speaks with piercing clarity about moral response.
Over the Verhagen home the giant wings of the windmill visibly signify a guardian presence. Carved on the front of the windmill is a picture of a trumpeting angel. One night, escaping from his enemy, Joris races homeward. Approaching the mill, he pants, “The Watchman…Winged Watchman…guardian angel!” He flings himself upon one of the enormous moving wings, is flung upward, and—by skillful maneuvers—he manages to evade his pursuer.
Set during the Nazi occupation of Holland, this book gives us a child’s viewpoint, Joris Verhagen. With Joris we feel outrage at wrongs done. Cruel laws, hunted people, misery, the utter villainy of an informer; but a burning determination to resist and to help one another, often at great cost.
Used | Paperback
In a day when in-depth history is rarely taught to children, and when its lessons are often regarded as ambiguous, this book speaks with piercing clarity about moral response.
Over the Verhagen home the giant wings of the windmill visibly signify a guardian presence. Carved on the front of the windmill is a picture of a trumpeting angel. One night, escaping from his enemy, Joris races homeward. Approaching the mill, he pants, “The Watchman…Winged Watchman…guardian angel!” He flings himself upon one of the enormous moving wings, is flung upward, and—by skillful maneuvers—he manages to evade his pursuer.
Set during the Nazi occupation of Holland, this book gives us a child’s viewpoint, Joris Verhagen. With Joris we feel outrage at wrongs done. Cruel laws, hunted people, misery, the utter villainy of an informer; but a burning determination to resist and to help one another, often at great cost.
Release Date: November 1995
Length: 191 pages
Weight: 7 oz
Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches
Age: 10+
Grade: 5 - 9
Publisher’s Price: $14.95
