Children Growing Up with War

Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 13, 2015

Review

The author, a free lance photo journalist, dedicates this book to the children growing up with war, to those inspired to change the world, and to those who want to be photographers. As such, the book then shows the ways in which war affects the lives of children, the helping organizations devoted to relieving their suffering, and the professional photographer's preparations and precautions before proceeding into dangerous areas. Picture book size and with forty eight pages of full-color photographs, the book's end pages display the author's passports, tickets and transfers and includes a map of eighteen of the largely middle eastern countries she has worked in, a list of main conflict areas such as Afghanistan and Iraq each accompanied by a paragraph of their histories, websites listing and describing helping organizations many of which use her photos such as Save the Children, a glossary and an index. Young readers of about fourteen years and up who are already aware that children are growing up with war in places far away from them may find the book's brevity still more than enough deprivation, injury and cruelty to view. War in many places is a part of the current world, and, as such, the book is recommended as one belonging in classrooms teaching history or social studies and certainly on school and public library shelves.

Overall Book Score: very good