A review by 24hourlibrary
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan by Mary Williams

3.0

For older grade school children, Brothers in Hope is an excellent introduction to the Lost Boys of Sudan. Williams strikes a good balance between depicting the horrors the boys faced without providing overwhelming or overly-upsetting detail for children. The prose is descriptive and dense on each page, and might work well in a classroom or in a one-on-one situation, but would not be suitable for storytime. Illustrations were not to my tastes at all -- in fact, I found them a little scary, with detailed and enlarged facial details on impressionist-esque bodies and simplified backdrops.