But during World War II, Nazis used the star to segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish pride. Without the yellow star to point them out, the Jews looked like any other Danes. (Without the yellow star to point them out, the Jews looke.) He is also the author-illustrator of two children’s books, New Hope and Your First Step. His work accompanying the text of Nancy White Carlstrom’s 'What Does the Rain Play?'. Sorensen has also used his talents to illustrate poetry. Further collaborative efforts with Melmed include Prince Nautilus and Jumbo's Lullaby. Their first effort, I Love You As Much., uses simple rhymes to express how both human and animal mothers feel about their babies. Another of Sorensen’s collaborators is Laura Krauss Melmed, with whom he has produced three books. Footprints and Shadows tells very young readers where footprints and shadows go. Sorensen illustrated his first children's book in 1991 for a re-issue of Alvin Tresselt’s Sun Up, the lyrical story of a day on a farm, originally published in 1949.Īmong Sorensen’s collaborations are two fact books - Anne Westcott Dodge’s Footprints and Shadows, and Jeff Shepard’s I Know a Bridge. He also worked as a glazier and at a film company making graphics and models.

Since 1985 Henri Sorensen has been a freelance illustrator.

The gift of the tree by alvin tresselt