About this title: This picture book tells the true story of an American pilot who, during the post-World War II Berlin Airlift, began dropping tiny parachutes filled with chocolates from his plane down to the children on the streets of West Berlin. One little girl named Margot, who was never able to catch one, sent a letter to Lt. Gail Halvorsen, the pilot who spearheaded the program. Moved by Margot's letter, Lt. Halvorsen sent her a special package and, ultimately, helped to restore her faith in human kindness. An epilogue explores how Margot and Lt. Halvorsen's friendship has endured over the years. ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
Description: Van Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert. Good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. True Story. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
Description: Van Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert. New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. True Story. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover; Third Printing
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
Description: Illustrated by Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1585360694. Unpaginated. Spine tail bumped. Else binding clean. Very faint dampstain to bottom 1/4" edge of pages. Else pages clean. DJ clean & bright.; Color Illustrations; 11.25 x 9.25" read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Pr
Date Published: 2002-04-01
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781585360697. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: SLEEPING BEAR PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781585360697ISBN:1585360694
Description: New. A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Dropped from the Sky. Life was grim in 1948 West Berlin, Germany. Josef Stalin blockaded all ground routes coming in and out of Berlin to cut off West Berliners from all food and essential supplies. read more
"Raven, M.T. (2002). Mercedes and the chocolate pilot: A true story of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.
Summary: Seven year-old Mercedes Simon is a young girl living in West Berlin with her mother, three years after WWII ended. In 1948 Josef Stalin blockaded the routes to West Berlin and the people there had little or no access to food or supplies. This book is about how Mercedes learned that there was an American pilot nicknamed the "Chocolate Pilot" (Lt. Gail Halvorsen) who bravely flew in candy and chocolate to the West Berliners and how she contacted him so she could receive some to keep her spirits up in an uncertain and dangerous time. The book includes two pages about "The Berlin Airlift" prior to the story, an Epilogue about the "Chocolate Pilot" and Mercedes, and a page about Lt. Halvorsen's missions to and from Berlin while he was in service.
Reviews/Awards: School Library Journal 8/1/2002 Booklist 7/1/2002 ForeWord Magazine 7/1/2002 Kirkus Review 6/1/2002 Publisher's Weekly 4/15/2002 Children's Choices, International Reading Association, 2003 Jr. Picture Book Award, 2005 Nominee Children's Crown Honor Book, 2005 Storytelling World Resource Award Winner- Stories for Young Listeners, 2007
Curriculum Connection: Students can re-enact this story by creating Venn diagrams or dioramas, learning new vocabulary and geography, writing letters of their own. Hershey Kisses are dropped (attached to parachutes- like in the story) from a rented helicopter, as the school chants "U-S-A". Idea borrowed from Children's Literature in Action by Sylvia M. Vardell, pgs. 178-179.
"A beautiful book about the pilots who risked everything to feed those who were closed in by the Berlin wall, all from the perspective of a little German girl. Perfect cross-curriculum book."
"Written for elementary age children. Great, easy-to-read, true story of Mercedes, a young German girl living in West Berlin at the time of the Soviet blockade. Explains in simple terms the historical background that made the drops necessary in the first place, but focuses primarily on the human story of a little girl and her Chocolate Uncle, Lt. Gail Halverson, who brought sweets, happiness, and hope to children growing up in post-WWII Germany."
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