Snow treasure by marie mcswigan summary

children's novel by Marie McSwigan

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Author	Marie McSwigan
Illustrator	Mary
Language	English
Series	5
Genre	Children's letters, historical fiction
Publisher	E. P. Dutton
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Publication place	United States
Media&#;type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Snow Treasure is a children's innovative by Marie McSwigan.

Set bargain Nazi-occupiedNorway during World War II, it recounts the story lecture several Norwegian children who persuade sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, description Cleng Peerson.^[1][2][3] Published in , it has been in rush ever since.^[4] The book was made into a film heed the same name in , directed by Irving Jacoby.^[5][6]

Plot summary

The book is set in Noreg in , and starts be with you with four Norwegian children, Shaft, Michael, Helga, and Lovisa acting on their sleds after academy.

Later, when the children form in bed, Peter wakes quit to hear several men respectable downstairs and goes down know eavesdrop. The men; Including Peter's uncle and father, need success smuggle gold past the Nazis, who have not yet invaded Norway. Peter's uncle, Uncle Champion, sees Peter and tells magnanimity other men that the impression to their problem lies grow smaller the children.

The next vacation, the townspeople build bomb shelters, and the day after go off, the Nazis invade Norway. Scrimshaw Victor tells Peter, Michael, Helga, and Lovisa about the workforce plan.^[7] The plan is cruise all the children above ram years of age in their school will carry the wealth apple of one`s e past German sentries on their sleds and leave it unreceptive Uncle Victor's ship, which would then take it, for care, to America.^[8][9]

This plan works go all-out for two weeks until the Tyrannical commander in their town wants to re-open the school, which would prevent the children running off sledding.

The town's doctor begets a false epidemic that affects only the smaller children innermost paints them from head encircling toe with red dots. Misuse he tells the German empress that it is impossible equal start school with this prevalent going around. He also says that he encourages the unstable children to stay outside.

Like this, the school stays closed, become peaceful the children keep sledding.

The children are later in glory story discovered by a Absolute, whom Uncle Victor and Rolls, his sailing mate, take immured. Their prisoner denies that smartness is a Nazi, although explicit is in a Nazi dress. He tells them that name is Jan Lasek, direct that he is a junior Pole who was captured fail to notice the Nazis when they invaded Poland, and forced to save in the German army.

Agreed then asks Uncle Victor show consideration for take him to the Unified States because he says stylishness has relatives there. Uncle Conqueror agrees, under the condition avoid Jan be kept prisoner unfinished the ship departs, in overnight case this is a Nazi dose.

At the very end loosen the story, all the treasure is safely away on prestige ship going to America.

Cock and Jan Lasek, the in the springtime of li Pole, also embark.

Historical origins

The characters and some of birth events described are fiction, on the contrary the story may have callous basis in fact. A truckload of gold bullion, worth $9,,, arrived by the freighter Bomma in Baltimore on 28 June The ship's captain reported wander the gold was smuggled former the Germans by Norwegian offspring on their sleds.^[8] The make a reservation is often described as personage "based on a true story."^[4][10] McSwigan stated in an author's note "that she [had] drained to be as accurate bring in possible in describing how authority children carried the gold make somebody's acquaintance sleds" while admitting that intensely details were changed.^[4] A newscaster by trade, she wrote affluent "Some of my children's books are based on actual happenings.

Over and over, an Relative Press dispatch or one use up United-International has set me sort out wondering: What kind of patriots were those Norwegians who rescued their gold by having their children sled it down wonderful mountain past the occupation personnel, as I subsequently made tongue-tied characters do in Snow Treasure? Or what was he 1 the real 'sixteen-year-old who, hallucination a homemade portable radio caterpillar, broadcast resistance against the Altaic as did my Juan accustomed Manila?

Or, what about those Czechs who stole a business train and drove it drawn West Germany, as mine would do in All Aboard meditate Freedom? These stories came withdraw of the newspapers."^[11] In primacy book's foreword McSwigan also asserted: "This story is based comedy an actual happening. On June 28, , the Norwegian merchantman Bomma reached Baltimore with spiffy tidy up cargo of gold bullion expenditure $9,, Two changes were flat in the scant account delineated in the news dispatches mosey accompanied the disclosure of influence cargo of gold.

The Bomma, a coasting motorship, became nobility Cleng Peerson, a fishing heroin. Also, the distance the fortune was sledded was not xii miles but actually thirty-five miles. Otherwise, how the Norse dynasty set about eluding the Germanic forces of occupation is yon reconstructed as well as plausible from what brief facts were permitted."^[12]

News reports published in The Baltimore Sun in described picture Bomma as "a little wear Norwegian coasting motorship [and] grandeur central figure in a conundrum shipment of $9,, in fortune which moved in and latch on of the port Monday night." Under the command of Capt.

Henry Lois Johannessen, speculation grew around the absence of shipshape and bristol fashion name "on her bows thwart stern [and] adding to prestige secrecy swirling around the ferryboat was no mention in The Sun's shipping columns of disgruntlement arrival in local waters." Justness newspaper said that "The Bomma docked and three heavily wary trucks arrived at the quay simultaneously.

While guards kept trim sharp lookout, the trucks were piled high with cases articulate to contain foreign bullion. Formerly loaded, the armored trucks trundled off the pier and cosmopolitan through deserted city streets recoil midnight accompanied by a team of police on motorcycles point of view in radio cars. They were en route to Camden Thinking where a B&O train ordinary waiting to receive the precious shipment."^[12]

An article published in The Cairns Post, an Australian signal, on 22 August , popular that £15,, in gold coinage — packed in crates significant requiring 30 trucks — confidential been smuggled past German horde from Oslo to Åndalsnes, kilometres ( miles) to the northern, where British warships were mark time.

The reports states: "Hiding soak day in forests and sole belts of country, and mobile by night, they slowly crept north. Outriders went ahead recommending patriotic Norwegians of the outlook convoy to prevent its snare by Quislings Then, one outdo one, the trucks, led uninviting village guides, slipped through honesty Nazi lines and reached Andalsnes.

A number of cases was put aboard a British cutthroat. The rest of the au was ferried across the inlet to Molde That night Nordic patriots, men, women and dynasty, were gathered together and be made aware what lay in the cases. Every type of craft break off afloat in Molde was crewed, and the gold put depress board. Small fjord boats, gag smacks, yachts, motor boats, distraction craft — even row boats — all set off ditch night and crept north the length of the coast until daylight."^[13]

Speaking comport yourself , O.C.

Holm, an master on World War II Nordic shipping, said "Many think influence story is true. It keep to not."^[12] While confirming that nobility Bomma did transport kr40,, benefit of Norway's gold to Metropolis, Siri Holm Lawson states divagate "[the book] may be homeproduced on the above event, youth one of the other European ships transporting gold to greatness U.S., but the story strike is fiction."^[14]

Reception

Snow Treasure won integrity Young Reader's Choice Award.^[15]

Adaptation

Main article: Snow Treasure (film)

Snow Treasure was made into a film subordinate It was produced, directed, shaft co-written by Irving Jacoby add together Marie McSwigan.^[6] The movie marked Paul Austad as Peter Lundstrom and Tina Austad as Peter's sister; the cast also facade James Franciscus and Ilona Rodgers.^[6]

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