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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Drawing up a comprehensive list is difficult as everyone will have their own personal favourites. Teachers and librarians will also be very helpful in choosing titles. Here are some titles and authors drawn up by Exeter Central Library. At the end of the list are some personal favourites and also a web site where you can read what other 10 - 15 year olds thought about some of the books.
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AUTHOR
Anderson R
Bawden N
Bawden N
Beresford E
Beresford E
Bergman T
Bevan C
Blake J
Blake J
Booth M
Breslin T
Brennan H
Burgess M
Butterfield M
Calvert F
Campling A
Carter P
Carus Z
Chambers A
Cormier R
Cresswell H
Cronin M
Dahl R
Davidson A
Dicks T
Frank A
French J
Greene B
Hamley D |
TITLE
Paper Faces
Carrie's War
Keeping Henry
Lizzy Fights On
Lizzy's War
Along the Tracks
Just Like Superman
Sid's War
The Sandbag Secret
War Dog
Final Victory
Homecoming for Kezzie
An Angel for May
Diary of a Young Nurse in World War 2
Sea-serpent
And the Stars Were Gold
Hunted
Hunted
Postcards From No Man's Land
Heroes
Stonestruck
Through the Night
Going Solo
Light
Spitfire Summer
Diary of Anne Frank
Hitlers Daughter
Summer of My German Soldier
D-day! |
AUTHOR
Hamley D
Hamley D
Holm A
Hughes S
Leeson R
Leeson R
Magorian M
Manson A
McEwan I
McKinlay P
Morpurgo M
Morpurgo M
Rees D
Serraillier I
Swindells R
Swindells R
Swindells R
Swindells R
Walsh J
Walsh J
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R
Westall R |
TITLE
Flying Bombs
War and Freddy
I Am David
Lion and the Unicorn
Tom's Private War
Tom's War Patrol
Goodnight Mr. Tom
Just Like New
Rose Blanche
Prisoner
Friend or Foe
Waiting for Anya
Exeter Blitz
Silver Sword
Blitzed
Doodlebug Alley
Hurricane Summer
Roger’s War
Dolphin Crossing
Fireweed
Blitz
Echoes of War
Fathom Five
Kingdom by the Sea
The Machine Gunners
Promise
The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
Time of Fire |
Personal favourites are:
- Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
- I am David by A. Holm
- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- Dolphin Crossing by J. Walsh
- The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
- Exeter Blitz by David Rees
You can read what other 10 - 15 year old readers thought about some of the books here; you can search by category, author or title.
Another site which will tell you about some of these books is here.
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
British Children's Literature and the Second World War, Owen Dudley Edwards, Edinburgh University Press, 2003
Edwards discusses children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, and the retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. British literature is set in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the U.S.A., and vice versa, and through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown.
British Poetry of the Second World War (Studies inTwentieth-century Literature), Linda M Shires, Palgrave Macmillan, 1985
The Second World War as seen Through Children's Literature
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