This Gallery has been put together as part of our Nov/Dec '08 special focus on children's books about "War and Peace." The images featured in it are from the following books, which deal with the topics of war and conflict:

Kathy Beckwith, illus. by Lea Lyon
Playing War
(Tilbury House, 2005)

...about a group of children who learn that war is not a game when they befriend a boy who has lost his family in a real war.

Amy Lee-Tai, illus. by Felicia Hoshino
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
(Children's Book Press, 2006)

...about a Japanese American family interned at the "Topaz War Relocation Center" during WW II.

Antonio Skarmeta, illus. by Alfonso Ruano
The Composition
(Groundwood, 2003)

...about a nine-year-old boy growing up during a military dictatorship.

Ken Mochizuki, illus. by Dom Lee
Baseball Saved Us
(Lee & Low, 1995)

...about a Japanese American boy who is sent with his family to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Michelle Lord, illus. by Shino Arihara
A Song for Cambodia
(Lee & Low, 2008)

...a story based on the childhood of peace activist and human rights leader, Arn Chorn-Pond, about how music helped him survive in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.

Haemi Balgassi, illus. by Chris K. Soentpiet
Peacebound Trains,
(Clarion Books, 1996)

...about a grandmother reminiscing with her granddaughter on escaping from Seoul just before the Korean War broke out.

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More on PaperTigers:

Dom Lee's gallery

Felicia Hoshino's gallery