A review by tepidgirlsummer
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I loved this one! It's an autobiography of the author's experience growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia, and the art is fantastic. (Depicting the police as pig-nosed men hiding in a crowd, spying and waiting to bust any dissidents? Brilliant.) I'm fascinated by the history of Communist Europe in general, but I've never read about it in a picture book format. There is a written narrative, but it's very minimal and most of the history and emotions are projected through the artwork.