Francesco Tirelli's Ice Cream Shop

This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the true, verified story of an Italian ice cream shop owner who risked everything to hide Jewish children during the Holocaust — and it does so with age-appropriate hope rather than despair. Kirkus and Publishers Weekly both praised it, and Yad Vashem's recognition of Tirelli as Righteous Among the Nations gives the history real weight. Parents should be prepared to guide the conversation, but this is exactly the kind of moral-courage story worth sharing with kids ages 7 and up.