Sir Michael Morpurgo has urged children’s authors to stop sugar-coating war in their books. The best-selling author, 81, said children should not be “patronised” about challenging periods of history ...

The wonderful screenplay for Kensuke’s Kingdom, written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and produced by Lupus Films, deals with the ...

To model and encourage compassionate views towards others. Talking to children about the war in Ukraine can model a compassionate view towards fellow humans, regardless of distance or circumstance.

Updated: DECEMBER 27, 2023 20:39 Yael Walfish is a social worker based in Passaic, New Jersey. She wrote a therapeutic coloring book for children in Israel to help them cope with fear and trauma.

But print book sales of kids’ titles focused on the Holocaust, part of the World War II canon, rose 13% since 2023, to 350,000 copies last year, according to book tracker Circana BookScan.

In October, two mothers described the impact of war on their children, during interviews in a shelter in Bechmezzine, in Lebanon’s north. The shelter was home to 85 people, made up of 20 ...