A book about the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War has scooped a prestigious prize for educational writers.
The judges of the 2012 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award described Ruth Thomson’s Terezin: A Story of the Holocaust as “one of the finest children’s non-fiction books for many years”.
The award was set up in 2008 to celebrate educational writing that encourages students “to read widely and build up their understanding of a subject beyond the requirements of exam specifications”.
The 2012 prize focused on books for 11 to 18-year-olds and the winner beat off three other shortlisted titles – Really Really Big Questions About Faith by Dr Julian Baggini, The Story of Britain by Patrick Dillon, and Into the Unknown: How great explorers found their way by land, sea and air by Stewart Ross.
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