Overview
Wars have occurred throughout history, in all parts of the world and they still happen. Despite the hardship and suffering of wartime, children often find ways to see beauty and hope - in the natural world, in the love of family and friends and in the ordinary activities of childhood. Through these graceful and eloquent poems, written from a child's perspective, young readers will experience this resilience, this optimism and understand that it's possible to get through difficult and unsettling times while holding onto one's hopes and dreams.
Full Product Details
Author: Eloise Greenfield ,
Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc
Imprint: Lee & Low Books Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 27.50cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.187kg
ISBN: 9781600604546
ISBN 10: 1600604544
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 20 January 2011
Recommended Age: From 7 to 11 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The rhythmic connections in words and pictures will move peace activists, old and young. -- Booklist Wars as far back as ancient China and as current as this century's conflict in Iraq are viewed from a child's perspective. Brief, but thought-provoking, free verse poems are mirrored by evocative collage illustrations. A gentle way to begin a dialogue on a very serious subject. -- School Library Journal Notable Books for a Global Society, International Reading Association (IRA) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The rhythmic connections in words and pictures will move peace activists, old and young. -- Children's Reviewer Booklist
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Author Information
Eloise Greenfield is a celebrated poet and the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and biography for children, including the Coretta Scott King Award winner Africa Dream, The Coretta Scott King Award Honor books Mary McLeod Bethune and Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir, co-written with her mother. Greenfield is the recipient of the Hope S. Dean Award from the Foundation for Children's Literature, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She has received the Hurston/Wright Foundation's North Star Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Moonstone Celebration of Black Writing, and has an Honorary Doctor of Education Degree from Wheelock College in Boston. Greenfield has also been inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. She lives in Washington, D.C. Jan Gilchrist was a fine artist and art educator for nearly twenty years before she entered the children's book field in 1988, with Children of Long Ago. Since then, she has illustrated more than fifty books for children, including many by Eloise Greenfield. Their book, Nathaniel Talking, won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and an Author Honor. Gilchrist was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2000 and the Society of Illustrators in 2001. A native of Chicago, she lives in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Visit her online at Jan Spivey Gilchirst.
