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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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Battlefields and Playgrounds is the story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy. The brightness of the image of the boy in the center of the Star of David surrounded by darkness alludes to the hopeful nature of this child’s story in the face of tragedy.