SuitabookBlitz – One family’s war
Martin Impey
- Reading
- Read the images and text as partners rather than treating the illustrations as decoration. Pause to ask what each contributes, then discuss the family’s viewpoint and any questions the wartime setting leaves unresolved.
- Themes
- Family life during war: The title frames the book around one family’s war, with the illustrator’s site connecting it to a Second World War home-front project. The subject may invite discussion of how a family experiences wartime, but the book’s judgement, emphasis and emotional resolution cannot be determined.
- Worth knowing
- Consider looking through the images before reading aloud. If wartime subjects feel personally significant to your child, preview the book together, because its title signals war but does not reveal the intensity or content of its scenes.