September 20, 2012
Little Bird Dog and the Big Ship (AuthorHouse, 44 pp., $21.99, paper) is the first volume in what author Marjorie Haun calls her "The Heroes of the Vietnam War" series of children's books. This short…
January 13, 2012
The narrator of David Volk's children's book My Grandpa’s War (CreateSpace, 36 pp., $10, paper) is a ten-year-old girl who is nicknamed "Sarge" by her Vietnam veteran grandfather. This is a sweet, positive book, which deals…
November 21, 2011
The plot of Elizabeth Partridge's Dogtag Summer (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 240 pp., $16.99) begins in 1981 when the eleven-year-old protagonist, Tracy, and her best pal, Stargazer, find a dogtag in an ammo box in…