A literary review of Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine and The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

Written in a different context and content, Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine and The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch are two literary works that bring a different perspective in children’s literature and literary works in general. This paper gives a review of a fictional and non-fictional literary work. The review is keen to illustrate the impacts of these literary works on people particularly children.
Hana’s Suitcase is the first literary work of Karen Levine. The book is based on a true story of Hana Brady, who was a Jewish young girl living with her family in New town in Moravia. The author portrays her main character as proof of the past atrocity against humans and also as a hope for a better world in the future. The life of Hana ended in a Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Fumiko Isoka, is the founder of Tokyo’s Center for the Study of the Holocaust reconstructed the story of Hana’s family after receiving a suitcase from the collections of Nazi concentration camps. The suitcase was simple with ‘ Hanna Brady, 16:5 1931, an orphan’ encrypted on it.
Motivated by many questions running through the minds of many Japanese children at the Tokyo Center, Mrs. Funiko embarked on an assignment of searching for the owner of the suitcase. To research led her to a seventy years mystery of a young Jewish girl and who lived with her family in Czechoslovakia until the unfortunate Nazi invasion (Levine, 9). The story uniquely takes place on three continents in a span of seventy…