SuitabookMy friend Gerard
Judith Weinshall Liberman, Davis, Gail (Illustrator)
- Reading
- Pause around commitment to a cause and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Commitment to a cause: Gerard is described as coming to Palestine to help fight for a Jewish state and as dying for a cause he believed in. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Gerard’s death and his role as an explosives expert are central facts. The level of detail about violence, weapons and loss is not clear.