Very informative and interesting.

This is a great overview of World War II for kids, and a good refresher for adults as well. It's packed with information that still manages to be kid friendly. My nine year old son devoured this book over the course of about a week.

I read this book and thought it was only a book about WW2 until I saw all of the activities that you could do. There were things like drawing a poster from the time period and also pack a lunch from WW2. For the lunch activity you had to have under a couple ounces of every main nutrient. This was very hard to do because what was supposed to be a lunch was more like a small granola bar.

World War II for Kids is packed with the information children are curious about from the era that was World War II. The book includes powerful topics such the rise of Hitler in 1933 and the surrender of the Japanese. The collection of activities within the book allow children to feel the struggles and sacrifices that were necessary for families during this time.

I thought this book was a great informational text to include in a text set for race and segregation in American history. The book includes colorful photographs, timelines, and activities for children to engage in with peers and teachers.

"Recent history is so fascinating because you can still touch it. You can still meet and talk to people who were there when the events of World War II took place. It is up to us to take advantage of these eyewitnesses to history before it is too late."

This is a great resource for ideas of making WWII more concrete to the students. It has a wealth of information to use in the forms of pictures, timelines, maps, etc. not to mention all the suggestions for simple activities to help make some of the information more accessible to students. I especially like the sections about the home front and think that some students would really enjoy exploring these activities.

James read it and said it was excellent. He asked me to put it on my list so that if he wanted it again we could look up the name and get it from the library.

It was a very good and historical book but I think the activities could have been better.

This book looks like a great resource for kids to read about WWII and it seems to cover all aspects of the war in a great overview. There are helpful maps and a timeline at the beginning.

What I really love are the "activities with a purpose". Some of the activities include "Make a Ration Kit" (for soldiers), "Know Your Ranks", "Stage a Radio Adventure Program", "Rationing Game" (where you calculate how much food your family would actually need - there's a lot of great math involved!), and "Coastal Defense" - all of these activities look really impressive and so meaningful. As a historian who loves studying this era, this book gets me really excited. I think I'm going to have to buy it. I'm putting 4 stars based on flipping through it alone and I'll come back later for a more complete review.

This was a fantastic resource for our homeschool lessons. It was FULL of information (way more than I anticipated) and had just enough photos, timelines, charts, etc that didn’t overwhelm or discourage. The activities were creative and encouraged a curiosity that helped educate in a gentle way.

Sometimes talking about history is difficult and hard to share with children. I am grateful we found this resource.

I enjoyed reading this to my son. He loves reading and learning about WW II. He asked questions and was fully engaged. I also learned more about WW II. I liked that because it was made for kids, the author left out the gruesome details. The last paragraph in the book was probably the most enlightening to me... “the war that had cost the world 50 million lives was finally over,but even today. The politics of the world continue to be shaped by the events of the years 1939 to 1945.”
That’s so true!

Another fact I didn’t know... “ the state of Israel was founded as a home for the displaced survivors of the Holocaust.”

This book was a great depiction of the horrors of war. I would encourage all ages to read this if they wanted to learn more about the Second World War. I also liked the human interest stories that the author put within all the facts. There was also crafts and what not, but we didn’t do any of them.

This book has great information from around the world during the 1930s and 40s. The German viewpoint is explored a bit as well as different places in Europe.

What struck me the most was the kindertransport before the war began. 10,000 Jewish children were taken to England. They were lucky, according to this book, because after the war began only 1 in 15 Jewish children from ages 2-17 survived. Or, to quote the book, 100,000 of the 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe survived.

A great resource for teachers with extra activities for learning.

Great for curious kids. It gives them plenty of information and my 10 year old refers back to it