Spring 2022 Children's Rights Guide

Nine-year-old Petros knows about war from his books. He is thrilled by heroes, shields, swords and victories. But then his mother wakes him up on the 28th of October 1940: “Can’t you hear the sirens?”. Greece has just entered World War II. How is war like in reality? Petros lives the war, occupation and resistance together with his parents, his sister, his grandfather and his turtle, Theodore. We follow him on his long walk through all the real adventures that take place between October 1940 and October 1944, when Greece was liberated. Petros’ War by Alki Zei adapted by Angeliki Darlasi illustrated by Dimitris Mastoros 168 pages | 21x28cm | Paperback RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE (FUTUROPOLIS) GRAPHIC NOVEL