Books about the war for children: a list of the best

The Great Patriotic War and the events of the postwar period fully determined the culture, and indeed the very structure of the life of Soviet people. Especially it affected the education of children and youth, and not the least role in this matter was played by books about the war for children. Discussions about how to properly educate the younger generation began much earlier - even before the war, when writers were reproached for their propensity for pure romance and argued that the feeling of beauty can not be abstract. Books about the war for children became the most important requirement of the time, this theme included romance in the form of military exploits, selfless work, where the sacrifice for the sake of the people is the highest moral message to the formation of a Soviet man. And all this most difficult time is reflected in books about the war for children. In his works, the authors use tremendous pedagogical and creative potential in order to convey to the younger generation the whole truth about the selflessness of those who defended the country in battles and worked in the rear. After all, it was teenagers and even children who stood up then to the machines to replace the adults who went to war. A little later, many books appeared about the war for children, on the pages of which they told about the sons of the regiment, about the young partisans and underground workers, that is, about the direct participation of children and teenagers in the fighting.

Issued during the war

The situation in the country was the hardest, but care for the proper upbringing did not stop. Periodicals and books about the children of war continued to be published. Their list is extremely long. But most publicistically is represented by propaganda poems, feuilletons, essays. At the very beginning of the war, Sergei Mikhalkov was already writing books about the war for children, where he explained the aims and meaning of counteracting fascism, creating a majestic image of our people, which is fighting for a just cause. This is "Byl for children," and then piercing the soul poems "Ten-year-old man," which describes an orphan boy, wading his way through the territory occupied by the enemy, and suffering terrible deprivations. And of course, Mikhalkov returned to the beloved children's hero - a postman ("Military Mail"). Readily reads and today these books about the children of the war are 4th class. The list is already very large, where, apart from Mikhalkov's works, there are also the best books of Alekseev, Dragoon, Kassil, Korolkov, Kataev and many others. It is impossible to enumerate everything, but further it will be necessary to dwell on some of them in more detail.

Many poets created images of children, whom the war deprived of childhood, they suffer, die from shelling and hunger. The best examples of this poetic creativity, despite such "deadly" themes, at the same time, the symbols of life itself, which the war tries to destroy, were much stronger. For example, in the poems of 1942 Anna Akhmatova, who addressed the Leningrad blockade children, was extremely convincing in her life-affirming beginning ("The Memory of Vali"). The images of avenger children appear from the beginning of the war increasingly often in verse and in prose. Here, one of the best examples will be those books about the children of the war, the list of which was precisely the reader's demand. For example, a poem that for almost long after the war was known by heart almost all Soviet children - "Partizan" Zoya Alexandrova, written in 1944, where it is about the boy who stayed with the partisans to avenge the dead mother. And today, after so many years, one must read books about the children of war.

4th grade

List of works for the fourth class exists in many versions, with different content. In the libraries of the country special events are held for schoolchildren, when excerpts from the best books about the war and even whole works are read aloud. And first an introductory conversation is conducted, and after reading - a conversation about what has been read with questions and answers. We all, being parents, read books about the war to children. And to facilitate this task, each children's library makes an approximate list of works of art that will be interesting and useful for the younger generation. Of course, books about the war for children are presented in a wide range, and therefore each list is advisory in nature, none of them can be absolutely complete.

But in any case, a small person should understand why he is invited to this or that book. Therefore, even in home reading it is better to start with an introductory conversation. It should be noted that these same books about the war for children of the 3rd class are also suitable. First of all, you need to know how much the child is ready to read this essay. We must ask what celebration we celebrate on May 9, whether he knows when the Great Patriotic War began, when it ended and how long ago it was. Then to ask questions more complicated: why the war was called Patriotic and Great, why do we still remember it? And yet: why did we win? From the answers it will be clear from which work it is better to start reading.

List

Books on the topic "Children and War":

1. SP Alekseev: "Bogatyrsky surnames", "Stories about commanders", "Stories about the Great Patriotic War".

2. J. Brown: "Utah Bondarevskaya."

3. LF Voronkova: "A girl from the city."

4. V. Yu. Dragunsky: "Watermelon Lane".

5. LA Kassil: "My dear boys", "Your defenders", "The story about the missing", "Flammable cargo", "At the blackboard", "Volodya Dubinin" and "Street of the younger son" (these two books Written in co-authorship with LM Polyanovskii), "Cheremish - brother of the hero."

6. Valentin Kataev: "The son of the regiment."

7. Yu. Korolkov about the pioneer heroes: Vale Kotike, Zina Portnova, Lena Golikova, Marate Kasee and others.

8. B. Lavrenyov: "Scout of the Whigs."

9. A. Mityaev: "Ivan and the Fritzes", "Bear Guard", "Horses", "Chicken Blindness", "Nosov and Nase", "Bag of Oatmeal," "Earrings for the Donkey," "Holidays for four hours, "Timothy Bessreatment," "Warm" language, "" Sixth - incomplete, "" Triangular letter. "

10. NA Nadezhdina: "Partisan Lara".

11. VA Oseeva: "Vasyok Trubachev and his comrades."

12. KG Paustovsky: "The adventures of the rhinoceros beetle".

13. Konstantin Simonov: "The son of an artilleryman."

14. AA Sokolovsky: "Valery Volkov".

15. EI Suvorina: "Victor Korobkov."

16. I. Turchinin: "The last resort".

17. J. Ya. Yakovlev: "Girls from Vasilievsky Island", "How Seryozha went to war", "Where the battery stood".

Short review

The best books for children about the war at all times will help teachers to grow a real assistant to adults in all conditions that offers life, including inhumanly terrible. The main thing is that a true writer always shows that the decisive role in children's fate belongs to adults, that adults are kind, reasonable and strong. This is said in the novel by Valentin Kataev, which was published in 1944. She is called the "Son of the Regiment". And what beautiful poems were written about the teenage workers of the rear: "The little peasant" from Sergei Mikhalkov, about the students from the vocational schools in the defense plants of the Urals with Agniya Barto and many, many others. In prose, Leonid Panteleyev wrote splendidly about this . Leo Kassil in the stories particularly clearly shows the contrast of the beautiful spiritual qualities of his characters and their purely physical "smallness." In the postwar years, numerous books on the war for elementary school children were written. Including how even the toddlers participated in the restoration of the economy, to the ruins destroyed by the war. The leading themes in this period are the school, family, work, to which the recent war has left its imprint.

It was then that the most piercing works of art were created and those who really participated in the battles. These are books about the Great Patriotic War for the children about Alexander Matrosov by the writer P. Zhurba, this is "The Fourth Height" by Elena Ilyina about Gul Koroleva, these are books about Volodya Dubinin Kassil and Polyanovsky, and finally the book for young people about the young guard Alexander Fadeyev - "The Young Guard ". This, of course, is not a complete list, in which the best books for children about the war of 1941-1945 are presented. Widely known at that time writers presented their new works to young readers. These are Oseeva, Musatov (Stozhary), Kalma (Children of Mustard Paradise), Kaverin (Two Captains - the second part), Fraerman, Schwarz, Karnaukhova and many others. The war offered completely new types of heroes, and therefore the traditional themes received a new solution.

Valentina Oseeva

Valentina Aleksandrovna Oseeva continued in her prose the direction of realism, being a follower of the art tradition of Ushinsky and Tolstoy. She at the head of each work put moral and ethical questions, and each of her lines should be primarily a means of education. Especially good are her books about the war for children 10-12 years old. Small people at reading already investigate moral norms and deviations from it. Usually the protagonist commits a misdemeanor, an ethical error. Then life gives him a lesson, and enlightenment comes through a painful experience. However, this is a very useful reading for most adults. Before the war, Valentina Alexandrovna addressed books to preschool and junior school children, and the theme of moral formation is also dominant in them, ethical lessons are given. That is why her short stories never carried a purely ideological burden. Such are the "Magic word", "Three comrades", "On the rink" and others. In a short story, writing skills are especially necessary - speech means are selected exceptionally carefully to leave the impression of pure and living intonation, in addition, it is necessary to be able to build a plot, choose a conflict. Valentina Oseeva thanks to such qualities from the school reader is unlikely to ever leave.

She took stories from everyday life of girls and boys, constantly forcing them to subject others and their actions, especially their moral component, to comprehension. According to these books, the reader, together with the hero, begins to understand those laws that are peculiar to the normal life of man and society. The writer does not make any discount for age, and the children in her stories show absolutely adult qualities: rudeness, indifference, meanness, selfishness, sensitivity, honesty, kindness, love for one's neighbor, for the Motherland. Her stories about children who had to endure the hardships of war are really excellent works on this subject and stand on the upper steps in the national children's literature. There is everything you need: a realistic image of the atmosphere of a given time, of people's characters. The narrative tone is exceptionally warm, confidential. All interpersonal collisions are in the background, and on the first one there is always war and children, war and peace, the Great Opposition.

Encyclopedias

Children's encyclopaedias published today - publications are qualitative and beautiful, but one must always take into account that they are entirely translated, and therefore cover the historical stage of the Second World War in a non-partisan manner. To recognize such publications as documentary means to slander against the truth. That's why there are calls to parents: to buy domestic books for children about the war of 1941-1945 in the home library. They will at least be written by native and correct speech, and most importantly - will help to preserve human dignity in the sources of historical memory, which is one of the most important tasks for the country. Many years have passed since the monstrous test for our people, and the fruits of the upbringing of the last decades sometimes can not but depress.

How often today you can observe in people indifference to the fate of the state in which they were born and live. It is necessary that the children remember and are well aware of the heroic deeds, the cruelest trials and the harshest fates of grandfathers and fathers. It is necessary to educate patriotic feelings in children. And best of all, this task is carried out books about the war for children. They have everything: millions of dead, and hard trials, and a furious struggle against fascism, and the long-awaited Victory. Only in this way a child can feel love for the Motherland, and later protect his Motherland and his own relatives if necessary.

Where to begin

Already the smallest students should read books on military topics. Of course, you need to choose the most interesting for them, that is, those works where the main characters are close to them by age. It is with the help of such books that children learn to love their family, loved ones, others around, and in general all the good things that prevail in their lives. When acquainting themselves with the literature on war, children should already have some knowledge on the topic. It is necessary to talk about relatives who fought or worked in the rear, and with various details - about bread ration (not only Leningrad, because it was nowhere sufficient for satiety was not), about living conditions, about learning (when there was no paper, and children Often did homework on old newspapers), about the work, which at that time began in people very early - in fact a lot of thirteen-year-olds stood at the looms in the war.

In the forties, exactly the same children made a tangible contribution to the approaching Victory. They even came into conflict with the enemy together with adults. That's why little children like the books "Walking along the street of soldiers" Baruzdin, "Your defenders" Kassil, "I am a soldier and you are a soldier" Markushi, as well as Gaidar's magnificent books "The Tale of Military Secret ...", "The Oath of Timur" and many others. Only if the introduction to patriotic literature takes place before the school, the children will gladly continue their acquaintance with books about the war, read the stories of Alekseev, among which there is a book about the war and blockade. For children, the battle near Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge, and the defense of Sevastopol will be understandable in the stories, and even more so - the assault on Berlin. Sergei Alekseev, as if from memory, wrote off what he saw and experienced during the war, every action, every feature of the character of the main characters is so reliable.

"Letter from Front"

This is an amazing book by the exceptionally talented author Anatoly Vasilyevich Mitiaev - stories about the military everyday life of a man who saw it all himself and participated in everything. The book at first glance is very simple, but this is only the first impression, and it is deceptive. After reading, like the aftertaste remains, and the reader for a long time puts in the memory all the consequences, all the causes of events, which he learned, each time more sharply and sharply experiencing the difficulties that the soldiers experienced on the way to Victory.

In the stories, the abundance of precious touching details of life - both military and pre-war, there are even more of them than information directly about the war, with analysis of battles and fights. It is these details that bring children closer to understanding purely human feelings. Soldiers grow up in the eyes, and with them the reader grows up, realizing that war is not only heroic deeds, it is a hard, unbearable job, only after which you can become a hero.

"The son of the regiment"

The "son of the regiment" Valentin Kataev is a truthful and exceptionally bright story about the very difficult fate of little Vanya Solntsev, who fought on an equal basis with adults and proved that the feat is an unbending will, this is a great love for one's native land, and not just boldness. The "son of the regiment" is perhaps the best book written about the children of the war, so masterful in it is the combination of an adult author's view, concessions to the children's interest (the adventure plan's fascination) with the traditions of classical literature.

The language is simply magnificent, and the sense of proportion is amazing. This is just a huge part of Russian literature - books on military topics. Even their role in military-patriotic education is not even important, even if many were written, as they say, by the "social order". All the same, both authors and readers alike, albeit willingly or unwillingly, experience with the heroes everything that happened there. Moreover, books about the war for children are a long-standing classic tradition, a perennial problem, and this subject has been covered almost always in Russian literature.

Blockade

Almost nine hundred days people who did not have time to leave Leningrad or who did not have such an opportunity because of the nature of their work were without light, heat, food, bombing, disease, cold and hunger. But they did not abandon their exhausting work for the benefit of the Victory - they dug defensive trenches and stood by the machines at the factories. Death very quickly became a routine phenomenon, though no less terrible. The books written about this always tell first of all about immortality, about love, about suffering for the sake of saving the motherland, about courage and hatred for the enemy. Documentary lines of diary entries should be read with children always - from an early age. Diary of Tanya Savicheva among them. Artistic novels about the blockade also very often have a diary form, so it may be easier to convey through the facts of the terrible events of eyewitnesses the truth that one can not not believe, but to believe - it hurts.

Documents always carry a lot of information purely statistical, through the lives of the inhabitants of one apartment one can see what was happening in the whole city. Here we need to mention Mikhail Sukhachev's novel The Children of the Blockade, from which the reader learns a great deal about the nature of bombing and shelling, about what it is like to die of hunger, but not give up. Children in all participated equally with adults - they were on duty in attics and extinguished incendiary bombs, helped the closest people to survive, even caught saboteurs who signaled to enemy planes. Only perseverance and selfless courage helped the guys stand in this unequal struggle. About the blockade of Leningrad, a lot of children's books, and you must necessarily introduce them to the younger generation, because the events of the war carry a lot of simple and clear truth to the children - shrill and thin. Some experience is acquired along with the perception of the content of these books, the events are experienced deep and become close, as if they happened to the reader and those who are close to him, with the relatives.