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The Great, Great, Great Chicken War
The Great, Great, Great Chicken War is a richly drawn tale of conflict begun by those who are too afraid, or chicken, to address why they are fighting in the first place. Fully illustrated by David de la Garza when he was five years old and watercolored by his mother, Joyce Rosner, The Great, Great, Great Chicken War presents a child's interpretation of how silly people ca...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by Anchorage Press
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A children's book that a son creates with his parents to try to make sense of war. It is powerful and entertaining at the same time. It has a great companion website to comment on, and some of the profits from the sale of the book go to Doctors Without Borders. Awesome.
I read the comments from the author's parents at the end of this book and really thought from a parent's perspective that it must have been so difficult to explain why there is war in the world to a child. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been.
I thought this was beautifully subversive, but then I actually read the back of the book, and it's not subversive at all! Nice little story with cute pictures to try and explain war.
I like the perspective that people who go to war are too "chicken" to address their problems in a more productive way and I could imagine this book sparking some good discussions with kids. But I think there are some big holes in the transformation as the animals become peaceful. Why?
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