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Charity affirms the unusually high quality of WWII literature as a genre and prizes it for its ability to allow children opportunities for self-reflection. Enjoy this printable booklist!...
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- Bright Wings: Children's Books
Nov 14, 2020 · Join Cody as he discusses ten books on the Second World War that every serious student of the conflict should read.
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- Cody Carlson, Ph.D.
- Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
- Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh
- Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
- Hero on A Bicycle by Shirley Hughes
- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
- The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
A perfect novel for middle grade readers, and a timeless mystery. Carrie and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to Wales during World War Two, and become entangled in the long-running feud between fiery Mr. Evans and his estranged sister Mrs. Gotobed. Along the way we meet some of children’s literature most memorable characters, including Alber...
A poetic and shocking novel about two teenagers, Bill and Julie, surviving by themselves during the London Blitz, Fireweedis by turns breathtaking and heartbreaking. Bill is poor, and angry; Julie is posh, and determined not to be evacuated to Canada (a decision that ultimately saves her life). Author Jill Paton Walsh sets these two characters down...
Away from the home front, there’s much to read and learn about the experiences of children in the occupied countries – and the moral choices they had to make as they went about their daily lives. Here, in Nazi-controlled Denmark, ten year old Annemarie becomes involved in the effort to rescue Denmark’s Jews from the Holocaust – by helping to ferry ...
The late, great children’s author and illustrator Shirley Hughes’ first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, was published when she was in her 80s. It’s the story of an Anglo-Italian family trying to survive in the last days of the Nazi-occupied Italy. A teenage boy, Paolo, embarks on a series of nocturnal bike rides through the Tuscan countryside, torn betwe...
Elsewhere in Europe, refugees were already on the move, fleeing their homelands, looking for salvation in a handful of neutral nations. Inspired by a photograph of a child refugee in a UNESCO report, Ian Serraillier (a teacher, a Quaker, and a conscientious objector during World War Two), wrote The Silver Sword, the story of Ruth, Edek and Bronia, ...
Another refugee tale; except this one is autobiography. British children’s author Judith Kerr, who created The Tiger Who Came To Tea and Mog, looks back on her childhood escape from Nazi Germany. The story begins in 1933, when Judith’s father disappears on the eve of Hitler’s victory in the Reichstag elections. Judith and her mother and brother are...
Inevitably, everything that has been written for children about the Second World War leads us to this book: it’s the key text – one of the most important books of the twentieth century – written by a Jewish girl who did not live to see her sixteenth birthday. The family lived in hiding for more than two years in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam; then they w...
These books serve as a carefully curated list to begin early discussions about the Second World War and how its ramifications and lessons persist today. May these stories hold seeds of hope for all generations.
Jul 20, 2019 · World War II Books for Middle School. World War II Resistance Fighters by Matt Doeden was a wonderful read for learning about the persons and organizations that creatively fought to oppose the Nazis while helping the allies and the oppressed. Recommended for ages 8-12.
Jan 23, 2023 · The best children’s books about the Second World War War is a difficult subject, and the atrocities of World War II can be especially hard to broach with younger readers. So, we’ve put together a selection of books, from real-life accounts and essential facts to historical fiction, that will give children helpful insight into what life was ...
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Feb 20, 2019 · Books and stories are a way of opening our eyes and of raising our awareness. The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon highlights the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, which is now said to be the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. In World War II, displaced children were called 'evacuees' or 'kindertransport' and welcomed into our homes.
