The author, illustrator and political cartoonist Jacques Goldstyn discusses his new children’s book The Eleventh Hour (Owlkids Books, 2018), the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, the horror of the First World War, and how to talk to children about war, with Joseph Planta.
| The Eleventh Hour by Jacques Goldstyn (Owlkids Books, 2018). |
Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.
A new children’s book, The Eleventh Hour, features Jim and Jules, childhood friends, born in the same town, two minutes apart. They’re inseparable, and when war breaks out in Europe, they enlist. The book, written and illustrated by Jacques Goldstyn, depicts the First World War. It is muddy, barbaric, and makes them homesick. These characters are not only drawn well, but drawn out so well. In very few pages you get a sense of these two young men, just as most young men in the conflict were. I get Jacques, who joins me now to tell us about his book, the Great War, how we’re remembering it on its 100th anniversary, as well as how war affects its soldiers, those at home and generations after. Jacques Goldstyn is an author-illustrator and a political cartoonist. His books Letters to a Prisoner, and Bertolt were acclaimed and award-winning. He draws cartoons in the Montreal Gazette under his pen name, Boris. This new book is published by Owlkids Books. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, in Montreal, Jacques Goldstyn; Mr. Goldstyn, good morning.
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