Struggle for Independence
Originally published in Stone Soup Magazine, September/October 1994 Special thanks to Sheila Crane, who taught in Emil's school in Rundu, for sending us his work.
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Originally published in Stone Soup Magazine, September/October 1994
Special thanks to Sheila Crane, who taught in Emil's school in Rundu, for sending us his work.
First published on the cover of Stone Soup Magazine, March/April 1993
"Divided Island," by Sofia Kakoulli, age 11, of Cyprus, is part of the Children's Art Foundation's permanent collection. Sofia was a student of A. Pavlou at the Ergates-Nicosia School when she made her painting. It was donated to the Children's Art Foundation by the Greek-Cypriot government.
In Part One, Mrs. Davids happily starts her teaching job and marries a doctor. Three years later, she is no longer happy; her husband has left home one day and never come back. She begins taking out her frustrations on her students, including Grace, the writer, Peter, the math whiz, and Danny, the class clown.
I live in Vietnam. I went to school in Saigon. I has one cat. I has four brother, no sister. My mother selling in her own store. My father was working for C.I.A. before 1975. After 1975 my father stop working for C.I.A.
One night at eight o'clock in August 30, 1978, the Viet Cong come and caught my father to put in the jail. Because my father work for C.I.A. At 1979 my dad is dead.
I was born on October 31, 1972 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was very young when my country was in trouble in 1975.
In 1975, the Khmer Rouge (the Communist leaders) came into town. They sent us and the other people out of town to other places to work on the rice fields. My family had to walk fifteen days to the new place. We took only things with us like clothes and so on.
I have been through an experience that I will never forget. When I was about six years old, my family and I escaped looking for freedom in America, because the Viet Cong took over my country. The country is Viet Nam.
The first time we escaped we didn't make it.
I live in Vietnam. I go to school in Vietnam. I have three pigs and one dog, but the dog is dead. My mother she was sad. My mother my father my sister is go to work. Me and my younger sister we stay home. Everybody is go to work. We has a restaurant in Vietnam. So my family they work there.
In Vietnam is very awful so we leave.
The University of California at San Diego has a collection of over 600 drawings by children who experienced the Spanish Civil War. This is one of the best documented collections of war images by children available on the internet.