cover image THE LITTLE SHIPS: Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II

THE LITTLE SHIPS: Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II

Louise Borden, , illus. by Michael Foreman. . S&S/Aladdin, $6.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85396-8

A girl joins her father in his small boat to travel in a five-mile-long convoy from the coast of England to Dunkirk, where nearly half a million Allied soldiers have been trapped by Germans. PW called the book "rousingly illuminating." Ages 9-up. (Feb.)