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When Children Die In War: Death in War Literature for Children and Youth
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 4, October 2009
- pp. 1-8
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0208
- Article
- Additional Information
From the 19th century novel, The Heart of a Boy (1886) to the contemporary collection Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq (2006), children have suffered the ravages of war and have been depicted in stories and accounts of war experiences. What do their voices tell us?