The Enemy

By Davide Cali, Serge Bloch (illustrator),

Book cover of The Enemy: A Book about Peace

Book description

In this moving picture book, award-winning collaborators Davide Cali and Serge Bloch present a fable for our time about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren battlefield. What each discovers, as the story unfolds, is that the enemy is not a faceless beast, but rather a real person…

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1 author picked The Enemy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is written for 10+ readers and is about two soldiers holding guns.

I enjoyed the obvious visual absurdity of two adults hiding in deep holes on opposing pages. As the story progresses, it becomes obvious they’ve been taught by a manual to believe that the other side is a monster, an enemy to be killed. Near the end, when both soldiers are fed up with the whole situation, they venture out of their holes only to discover that the other man is a human being with a family and home just like them! The other man was also…

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