{"id":1822,"date":"2013-04-04T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:29:21","slug":"visiting-sir-arthur-carty-catholic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/visiting-sir-arthur-carty-catholic-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Sir Arthur Carty Catholic School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10745\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10745 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Arthur Carty School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ms Popovic from Sir Arthur Carty Catholic School in London just emailed me some photos from my March visit.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo, I\u2019m reading the scene when Nadia meets Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty2-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students had lots of great questions about <em>Stolen Child<\/em> and <em>Making Bombs for Hitler<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty3-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These Sir Arthur Carty students are holding up a variety of books, including the Japanese edition of <em>Hope\u2019s War<\/em>. I\u2019m holding the Korean edition of<em> Silver Threads<\/em> and the Ukrainian edition of <em>Enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carty4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question was \u201cWhich book is your favourite of all that you\u2019ve written?\u201d That is such a difficult question. I love them all! <em>Enough<\/em> holds a special place because it was such a risky book. Back in 2001 when it came out, I was subjected to hate mail and death threats for writing about the Holodomor \u2014 the Stalin-instigated starvation of millions \u2014 for the crime of being Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Popovic from Sir Arthur Carty Catholic School in London just emailed me some photos from my March visit. In this photo, I\u2019m reading the scene when Nadia meets Hitler. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Students had lots of great questions about Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; These Sir Arthur Carty students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/visiting-sir-arthur-carty-catholic-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visiting Sir Arthur Carty Catholic School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-author-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10747,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/10747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}