War Is Over

Transcending its time and period, this moving and lyrical story, beautifully illustrated, explores the fear and hope of children in time of war.

I am just a child. How can I be at war?

It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can one day scatter the seeds of peace. David Almond brings his ineffable sensibility to a poignant tale of the effects of war on children, interwoven with David Litchfield's gorgeous black-and-white illustrations.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 05/12/2020
ISBN: 9781536209860
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020
Booklist 03/15/2020 pg. 65
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2020

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 508345 / War Is Over
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 1