Les grandes grandes vacances #3

Published by Bayard Presse in 2021, this third volume of Les grandes grandes vacances — subtitled Des temps difficiles — immediately sets a somber, watchful tone through its deceptively spare cover. Two children, a boy and a younger girl in a red dress, stand close together with expressions of quiet unease, flanked by two German soldiers — one rifling through stacked wooden crates, the other standing stiffly with his back turned — while a small pig wanders nearby. It's a striking image that captures the tension and fragile innocence at the heart of this BD Kids series about children navigating the hardships of wartime occupation.