Here’s a great example of how to teach young kids about global geo-politics, war, and “terrorism” via a cartoon. Eric Henry’s flim is titled after an observation by St. Augustine in City of God, proposing that what governments coin as “terrorism” in the small simply reflects what governments utilize as “warfare” in the large. Yet, governments coerce their populations to denounce the former while embracing the latter.
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Put Pirates and Emperors in the same resource kit with:
Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cornin and Betsy Lewin
Ned Mouse Breaks Away by Tim Wynne-Jones and Dušan Petrišcic.
and
How Does The Czar Eat Potatoes? by Anne Rose/Janosh.