The Belgian artist Claude K. Dubois tries to make understandable to the children the traumatic experiences of war and the escaping from it, a reality for many people, taking as an example the fate of little Akim.

Just like a natural disaster, war arrives to Akim's simple life, a child who gets lost in a landscape of desolation until someone holds his hand and he is dragged with all the people who are running away.

"It's not the short text, but the drawings what impress. With fast scenes, Claude K. Dubois draws death and destruction, develops a child diary of war like a document of the senselessness of violence" (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

"Emotion is the only force of my work... The look of children will meet with my characters'. So this magical encounter takes place, it is necessary that this look is honest and bright" (Claude K. Dubois).

* German Prize for Children's Literature 2014

* Catholic Award for Children's Books 2014

* Book of the month, February 2014

* Top 7 books for Young Readers (November 2013)

* Month's Toad in march - Die Stube (Vienna, 2014)