I loved this graphic novel. I recently began trying to learn more about WWI, and this book is by far the clearest and most concise guide I've found. It's also very entertaining and a surprisingly quick read, even for a graphic novel. Yes, it's directed at young adult readers, and yes, it's relatively superficial compared to more scholarly texts, but it still takes a relatively serious look at the trauma of the Great War. Also, depicting Jack Pershing as a rabbit with a mustache is one of my favorite artistic choices of the year. Highly recommended.

Whoa.

This is an amazingly ambitious installment in the series covering an overview of WWI, start to finish, using animals to represent all of the different countries involved. I didn’t understand why WWI started until I was an adult and studied it more in depth. This book does a great job of explaining everything in a way that kids (and adults) can understand and follow. There is even a dash of humor thrown in here and there to lighten up a pretty depressing subject. Well done, but perhaps too big in scope for one book.

Summary of World War ! - helped me understand more about WW!. Most people typically study WWII. Interesting that, similar to the book Maus by Art Spiegelman, the author used animals to help distinguish the countries so the readers could follow along more easily.

Nicely done, but I finished asking more questions than I had answered. It would definitely help to talk with a group while reading this story. More back matter would have also been helpful.

A historical narrator and his two sidekicks tackle the complicated events that led to World War I, and then document -- in tragic and meticulous detail -- the major events of the horrific war and its impact on history. Somehow it also manages to maintain a spirit of readability and dark humor. Taking a page from Art Speigelman, each country is represented by a different animal (Americans are bunnies, Russians are bears, etc.). Both dense with details and an accessible entry point into a complicated world event, this latest entry in Hale’s Hazardous Tales series is a rare find.

This was my 7 year old's first exposure to WWI, and he ended up not liking it because of the use of "cute animals" (as per the book's description) to tell the story. I hope he'll reconsider for Animal Farm, Maus, etc! But in the meantime, we might come back to this later.

This is probably the most comprehensive history of WWI you will ever read.

It's complicate. But so was WWI.

Keep 'em coming, Mr. Hale. You are filling in gaps in MY historical knowledge, and nurturing historical curiosity in young readers.

Love these books. Such an approachable way to get small, but important, doses of history.

This was a read a loud for my 2nd grade son. It was meant to be for him to read but was a little above his reading level, so i read it to him, I’m not a fan of comic style books, but he really enjoyed it. It helped explain a really difficult war and is a good place to get a beginning understanding of WW1.