House on the Canal: The Story of the House that Hid Anne Frank

Thomas Harding is an award-winning author whose books have been translated into over nineteen languages. As a journalist, he has written for the Financial Times, The Sunday Times (London), The Washington Post and The Guardian, among other publications, and works as a radio and television presenter. He co-founded a television station in Oxford and for many years was an award-winning documentary maker. Britta Teckentrup's strikingly beautiful picture books have been published in more than twenty countries. They include Tree, Bee, Moon, Ocean, Under the Same Sky, which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and The House by the Lake. Born in Hamburg and educated in London at St. Martin's College and the Royal College of Art, she currently lives with her family in Berlin. See her work online at brittateckentrup.com, and follow her on Instagram at @britta_teckentrup.

Readers will emerge simultaneously awed by the passage of time and personally affected by the stories told. Teckentrup overlays her bright, exquisitely detailed sepia-toned depictions of the house and its environs with a misty haze; the result are hauntingly beautiful. Deeply moving, powerful, and breathtaking."