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David, who seems to have been the only child in a men’s prison camp, grew up without family or history and knows nothing about any other kind of human society, except what he learns from the adult prisoners and what he observes after he escapes. His experiences, and the questions he wonders about, encourage exploration of concepts such as family, belonging, identity, freedom, goodness, evil, resilience, language, and education. This book can be considered a philosophical novel for children. Though somewhat dated, it remains a gripping account of a child on the verge of adolescence responding to adversity with courage and hope.
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
City
Montclair
Keywords
belonging, education, evil, family, freedom, goodness, identity, internment, language, resilience, war
Disciplines
Education | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Green, Lena, "I am David (Jeg er David) (1965) by Anne Holm" (2022). Middle Grades Books. 10.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_middlegrades/10