The Enemy

Name: The Enemy
Brand: Wilkins Farago
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A Book about Peace

By: Davide Cali, Serge Bloch (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 1 November 2007

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Already a major hit in France, The Enemy is a profound, moving and poignant fable for our time about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren desert battlefield. Are they the only soldiers left? How can they end the war? Just who is the enemy? Published in association with Amnesty International, this timeless picture book will appeal to adults and children alike. Created by Davide Cali and Serge Bloch, the award-winning team behind 'I Can't Wait' (winner of France's prestigious Baobab Award, and Honour Book in the American Library Association's Batchelder Award) and 'I Love Kissing You'. This Wilkins Farago edition marks its first publication into English anywhere in the world. For readers aged from 7 to 77. 'Challenging the traditional notion of what a picture book is and who it is for is this stark, poignant book...[which] boldly explores the futility of war.' - The Sunday Age 'Impressive...the award-winning team of Cali and Bloch seems set for further recognition...Highly recommended.' - Magpies

About the Author

Davide Cali is one of Europe's most innovative and acclaimed writers for children. He is the author of more than 20 illustrated books, including 10 Little Insects, The Bear with the Sword, The Enemy: A Book About Peace, Mama Robot, and Santa's Suit. Serge Bloch has worked as an editorial illustrator for the "Chicago Tribune," the "Los Angeles Times," the "New York Times," the "Wall Street Journal," and the "Washington Post," as well as "New York Magazine" and "Time." Cali and Bloch also collaborated on I Love Kissing You and I Can't Wait, which won France's prestigious Baobab Prize and was Honor Book in the ALA's Batchelder Award.

Industry Reviews

War demands an enemy: Two khaki-clad soldiers peer out of holes, torn through the page as if by bullets. They are separated by a large expanse of white on either side of the gutter. One soldier defends his position: "The enemy is there but I have never seen him. Every morning, I shoot at him. Then he shoots at me." They are both hungry and exhausted. But the other deserves to be. He is a beast. At least that is what the war manual says. Yet neither makes the first move. They wait, in an endless stalemate. Finally, one soldier sneaks out at night, ready to attack. But so does the other, and instead, they swap places. The enemy's foxhole is exactly the same. Why are they fighting? They don't know. Cali and Bloch break war down to its smallest - human - component. The powerful text and loose ink drawings are as spare as the foxholes they portray and leaven the weighty subject with an accessible irony. Though too metaphorical for the very young, middle-grade readers may well tuck away a small piece of this book to save for the future. (Picture book. 8-12) (Kirkus Reviews)

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