During the course of my independent study project, I was asked if I thought that it was easier to tell a very serious story without words. I didn't know how to respond, because most of the books I had encountered were not somber. This was the first, but not the last. Using oversized cream-colored paper, full page sepia-toned pictures show the devastation of war. A powerfully evocative tribute, I can't imagine that this story was any easier to tell than it was to read.
From the White Ravens 2014 catalog: "Illustrator Dedieu confronts the reader with many questions: . . . Are there winners in war or only losers? One needs no more than the minute of silence ironically invoked in the book's title to physically leaf through the book. But . . . much more time to look at it with complete focus and to find answers to many questions."
14-18: Une Minute de Silence a Nos Arriere-Grands-Peres Courageux [14-18: A Minute of Silence for Our Brave Great-Grandfathers] by Thierry Dedieu. France: Seuil Jeunesse, 2014. [9791023501544]
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