tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916485057164205644.post6555279215756046357..comments2024-03-27T11:03:16.505-04:00Comments on Home Joys: Bookmarks - WW2 Chapter BooksGinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05420137490490341730noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916485057164205644.post-62938446358856448332018-06-07T09:16:07.637-04:002018-06-07T09:16:07.637-04:00Brenda-
Good question. To me, reading books like t...Brenda-<br />Good question. To me, reading books like these have prompted many discussions with my children on the horrors of war. And I think that is good. I have avoided books that depict the military as the heroes, though a few of these would have a little of that. We avoid biographies of war generals, for example. I've tried to find books that show ordinary citizens trying to help others in times of war - people like Corrie ten Boom. Some of these books do depict resistant fighters who were not nonresistant. I don't want to glorify war and to me that means teaching my children honestly about its horrors. But every family will need to decide what they want their children to read. I don't claim to have done it perfectly.<br />GinaGinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420137490490341730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916485057164205644.post-57440549704541460582018-06-06T11:42:18.090-04:002018-06-06T11:42:18.090-04:00Can you share your thoughts on why non-resistant p...Can you share your thoughts on why non-resistant parents should read or encourage their children to read so many stories relating to war? I did have them read some textbooks during the upper grades, but always have wondered where the line was on what they should be reading. It's not so much that the stories you have mentioned may be 'bad', but if they read these and develop and interest in war, then want to read more, then more, and more, it just becomes a slippery slope at some point. Or maybe I am completely off in my thinking.....!<br />Plainlady's Ponderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09526327124561246570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916485057164205644.post-37312027634708097042018-06-04T21:28:41.998-04:002018-06-04T21:28:41.998-04:00Thanks for the suggestions.
Here’s another- a boo...Thanks for the suggestions. <br />Here’s another- a book I just finished...an ebook from our library. About child evacuees over World War II <br />The War That Saved my Life. By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (a different perspective) my children and I love to read. Our oldest’s fav has been The Hiding Place for several years now. luv2sew__77https://www.blogger.com/profile/04578962751484709164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4916485057164205644.post-61442562941415032172018-06-04T16:31:20.811-04:002018-06-04T16:31:20.811-04:00Really good list.
I will be looking at the librar...Really good list. <br />I will be looking at the library to see which ones I can find.<br />I so enjoyed your children’s picture book list in WW2. I found many of them at the library.<br />Yes, The Hiding Place is life changing. I’ve often told people that when I recommend they read it. That it changed me when I read it.<br />I will have to read the other two you mentioned. I’ve heard of them, but not read them.<br />Thank you, <br />Praying you and your family are doing well. Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16022080428503615168noreply@blogger.com