War and Peace: A Booklist
for Children
Reading Suggestions for Children
about the Conflict in Iraq from the Springfield Library.
On War and Peace
- Seuss, Dr.; The butter battle book;
New York : Random House, c1984. [JJ SEUSS DR. Butter]
- Engaged in a long-running battle, the
Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as they attempt
to outdo each other.
- Vaugelade, Anaïs; The war; Minneapolis
: Carolrhoda Books, 2001. [JJ VAUGELADE, ANAIS War]
- Prince Fabien uses an ingenious trick
to end the war between the Reds and the Blues without violence.
- Pin, Isabel; The seed; New York
: North-South Books, c2001. [JF PIN, ISABEL Seed]
- A seed falls onto the boundary between
two rival tribes of insects and provokes preparations for war, but a simple
solution is growing while they prepare.
- Coerr, Eleanor; Sadako and the thousand
paper cranes; New York : Putnam, c1977. [J 616.9 C65s]
- Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb
disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand
paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become
healthy.
- Kindersley, Barnabas, et al, in association
with United Nations Children's Fund; Children just like me; New York
: Dorling Kindersley, c1995. [305.23 K575c]
- Nonfiction. Photographs and text depict
the homes, schools, family life, and culture of young people around the world.
- Aaseng, Nathan; The peace seekers
: the Nobel Peace Prize; Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1987.
[J 327.1 A11p]
- Nonfiction. Profiles of nine Nobel Peace
Prize winners who fought for peace by resisting violence through words, marches,
and protests.
- Norman, C. J.; Tanks; London
; New York : F. Watts, 1986.[J 358 N78t]
- Nonfiction. Explores how tanks are used
in combat to carry weapons, attack other armored vehicles, check out enemy
positions, and perform other tasks such as carrying troops and laying bridges.
- Norman, C. J.; Military helicopters;
London ; New York : F. Watts, 1986. [J 358.4 N78m]
- Nonfiction. Examines how helicopters
are used in modern warfare to carry troops and supplies, serve as reconnaissance
and fighter craft, hunt and destroy submarines, and attack enemy ships.
- Payan, Gregory; Chemical and biological
weapons : anthrax and sarin; New York : Children's Press, c2000. [J 358.34
PAYAN]
- Nonfiction. Discusses the components,
use, and history of chemical and biological weapons, especially anthrax and
sarin, and explains the effects on humans after exposure.
On Iraq
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- Hickox, Rebecca; The golden sandal
: a Middle Eastern Cinderella; New York : Holiday House, c1998. [J 398.2
HICKOX]
- An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story
in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and
stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.
- Shepard,
Aaron; The enchanted storks : a tale of Bagdad; New York : Clarion
Books, c1995. [J 398.21 S547e]
- The Calif of Baghdad is turned into
a stork by an evil sorcerer, the only one who knows the magic word that will
restore the Calif to his human form.
- Laird, Elizabeth; Kiss the dust;
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, 1992. [JF L145 13]
- Her father's involvement with the Kurdish
resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her
family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.
- Foster, Leila Merrell; Iraq;
New York : Children's Press, 1997. [J 956.7 F814i 1997]
- Nonfiction. Describes the geography,
history, culture, industry, and people of Iraq, formerly known as Mesopotamia.
- O'Connor, Karen; A Kurdish family;
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1996. [J 305.891 O18k]
- Nonfiction. Describes the experiences
of one Kurdish family that was driven from their home in northern Iraq and
moved to a new life in California.
- King,
John; A family from Iraq; Austin : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1998. [
J 306.85 K583f ]
- Nonfiction. Describes the activities
of an extended family living on the outskirts of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq,
providing brief information about daily life and customs.
- Foster, Leila Merrell; The story
of the Persian Gulf War; Chicago : Childrens Press, c1991. [J 956.704
FOSTER Story of]
- Nonfiction. Examines the causes and
events of the Persian Gulf War that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in
1990.
- Iraq in pictures, prepared by
Geography Department, Lerner Publications Company; Minneapolis : The Company,
c1990. [J 956.7 I65]
- Nonfiction. Photographs and text introduce
the geography, history, government, people, and economy of Iraq, the cradle
of civilization.
- Tames, Richard; Take a trip to Iraq;
London ; New York : F. Watts, c1989. [J 956.7 T151t]
- Nonfiction. Text and photographs introduce
the geography, history, natural resources, people, and culture of the oil-rich
Middle Eastern country.
- Childs, Nick; The Gulf war;
Vero Beach, FL : Rourke Enterprises, 1988. [J 956.7043 C437g]
- Nonfiction. Surveys the origins, battles,
and prospects for peace in the Iraqi-Iranian conflict.
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