The Day War Came

‘The Day War Came‘ starts with breakfast, a walk to school, a kiss on the nose. A hail of sound announces war, and a need for escape. From ‘the blackened hole’ that is her town, the girl, ‘ragged, bloody, and alone’ travels through cold, rain, mud, over fields and roads, in trucks and boats, walking and running. She says ‘war had followed me’; it ‘had taken possession of my heart.’

Experienced, impassioned, inspired picture book makers Nicola Davies and Rebecca Cobb draw the girl’s story evocatively, empathetically and truthfully. We realise her isolation and fear. We long for her respite, that somebody will not ‘turn away.’

We recommend ‘The Day War Came’ to homes and schools. It is an urgent, necessary and awesome story to share and realise. Nicola Davies and Rebecca Cobb have created a masterpiece.