Children’s books

NO! by David McPhail (Frances Lincoln, €10.05; endorsed by Amnesty International UK). Set during wartime a small boy sets out to post a letter.

As he walks along the war-torn street he sees the horrors of violence, the rumbling planes above, and the terrors of people when soldiers kick down their doors.

When he himself is accosted by a young lout his fury breaks out with a bellowing NO!