Ms M was very interested in the Second World War and we kept reading books related to it – fiction and non-fiction – for the longest time. I was going to write summaries and/or reviews, but I am in a blue funk because my digi-cam has gone wonky.

So here is a list of books we like… reviews will come later in shaa Allah… when my good humour is restored…

Reference

• Eyewitness: World War II (Eyewitness Books) by DK Publishing
• Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng
• The Usborne Introduction to The Second World War: Internet-linked (Hardcover)
  by Paul Dowswell
• Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers by Deanne Durrett
• World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities (For Kids series) (Paperback)
  by Richard Panchyk

Stories/Chapter Books by Michael Morpurgo

• Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
• Billy the Kid
• Friend or Foe
• I Believe In Unicorns
• Kensuke’s Kingdom
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
• The Mozart Question
• Waiting for Anya

Other Chapter Books

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito by Sheila Garrigue
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• War Boy: A Country Childhod by Michael Foreman
• When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

Picture Books, etc.

• Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II by Marisabina Russo
• Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming
• Home of the Brave by Allen Say
• Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
• The Butterfly by Patrcia Polacco
• The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
• The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
• The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden
• The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
• The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II by Louise Borden
• The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter
• Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
• Willy and Max by Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar