A bear? Helping mankind? Seriously?!! This is an exciting book that we all really enjoyed. It is a book about different animals all helping mankind in different ways, during different wars.
Each chapter is a completely different story, telling a completely different tale. The amazing part is that every one is absolutely true!
For example, there are stories on: dogs that sniff out survivors from bomb wreckages; bears that carry bombs on their backs; donkeys being used as four-legged ambulances; and even pigeons being used as messengers.
Some of the stories were very sad, some were creepy and some were quite scary, but almost all of them were unexpected.
Half of our group do not like non-fiction books but we really enjoyed this because you get to learn facts about history and how terrible war is, through stories. We also liked that you could read the book in any order, at any time.
Some of us are ‘lost for words’ over how to describe this book! What we can say is that we think it is fantastic, informative and definitely unexpected. We think that most children from age 7 up would enjoy it. All eight of us would recommend it to others to read, so please make sure you do!
- Buy this book at the Guardian Bookshop
