title: The War (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
author: Anais Vaugelade
description: Spare watercolors set the tone for this sage antiwar parable. Played out against a bleak, treeless landscape, the tale of two kingdoms locked in endless war draws its color from the characters: the Reds, ruled by Victor the Second, fight the Blues, led by Armand the Twelfth. French author/artist Vaugelade plays up this war's farcical nature by emphasizing the characters' resemblance to one another; readers can identify them only by their corresponding monochromatic spreads. The vast, empty throne rooms in checkerboard tile cleverly suggest a game of chess. Prince Fabien of the Blues "wasn't very interested in war," and, when challenged to a duel with Prince Julien of the Reds, shows up riding a sheep, startling Julien's horse and killing him. Accused by the Reds of cheating and disowned by his father, Fabien sends identical letters to the two kings claiming that he has joined with King Basil of the Yellows, and challenges them to battle--thus making the age-old enemies into allies. Vaugelade carries the pacifist message both visually and textually; the piquant reds, blues and yellows pop out against the barren backdrop to keep attention tightly focused on the human aspect of this shrewd tale. A festive penultimate spread depicts the hesitant but joyful mingling of Red and Blue citizens as their alliance outweighs years of antagonism. All ages. (Mar.)Peace and People's Understanding.
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  # War and Peace
  
  
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  ### Leo Tolstoy
  
  
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  # BOOK ONE: 1805
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the
  Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you
  still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I
  really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and