by Eric Walters & Adrian Bradbury
PRMS hardcover 89 pages
genre: non-fiction for middle school readers, war impact
The kid stories were the best part of this. The photographs were also quite good. The background info was bland and quite frankly, I had to force myself to read through it. Not sure a middle schooler would persist. The title is from a proverb: "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers." The truth of this observation - that innocents suffer when bigger powers battle - doesn't really come through in the book's text. I'm not sure how the authors could have made the info on the conflicts more interesting or relevant to young readers, but I wish they had. The other thing that kind of bothered me was how old some of these conflicts are . . . with so much fighting and suffering going on right now, why use such old examples?
Uganda / Jimmy / 2000s
Sri Lanka / Annu / 1990s
Afghanistan / Farooq / 1990s
Bosnia / Nadja / early 1990s
Sudan / Toma / recent 2000s
I was also surprised by how many people escaped from violence and moved to Canada! Or perhaps the authors are Canadians and they went with the people with whom they had contact.
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