The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature

by Pierre-Jacques Ober

A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux.

About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war.
The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years.

It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French soldier named Pierre had quietly left his regiment to visit his family for two days, and when he returned, he was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153620482X
• ISBN13: 9781536204827
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Candlewick Studio
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher