Concept Thirty Years War children’s picture book

[JHG]

A war book for kids could be intense or nightmare inducing, so you gotta be careful how far you take it. That said, kids books are meant to be softer, fluffier, even scarier stuff (goosebumps for example isn’t all that scary IMO; it has its moments, but still can be generally pretty mild though I haven’t read a whole lot of books yet as a whole. But yeah, kids stuff shouldn’t be too intense ‘cos kids are growing and you don’t wanna traumatize them).

Even a lot of older kids books to some extent should have a softer edge, probably. There are kids who don’t mind being scared too much, but even braver kids have their general limitations for how dark something can be. Overall, you just gotta approach this kid of thing carefully with children.

I won’t say I am against the idea of this like I woulda been months ago, though. I am starting to understand that dark media isn’t nessasarly negative more these days, anyways. I am growing up more now.

It’s more food fight than war with a side of squirt guns.

[LadyJirachu]

A war book for kids could be intense or nightmare inducing, so you gotta be careful how far you take it. That said, kids books are meant to be softer, fluffier, even scarier stuff (goosebumps for example isn’t all that scary IMO; it has its moments, but still can be generally pretty mild though I haven’t read a whole lot of books yet as a whole. But yeah, kids stuff shouldn’t be too intense ‘cos kids are growing and you don’t wanna traumatize them).

Even a lot of older kids books to some extent should have a softer edge, probably. There are kids who don’t mind being scared too much, but even braver kids have their general limitations for how dark something can be. Overall, you just gotta approach this kid of thing carefully with children.

I won’t say I am against the idea of this like I woulda been months ago, though. I am starting to understand that dark media isn’t nessasarly negative more these days, anyways. I am growing up more now.

It’s more food fight than war with a side of squirt guns.

Aha. That sounds quite funny and fun, actually I admit, I didn’t read all the posts in this thread xD;

I still shudder a little over war themes, but I am getting more tolerant of things overall now. I understand media is not meant to be good or bad, no matter what it themes around, even if a part of me doesn’t 100% grasp that too and that’s okay. It’s cool I am noticing I like sweet, fluffy, cute things a lot but I can also binge watch a scarier show like stranger things and darker kids books series (like goosebumps) are actually huge favourites of mine these days. Cos it’s great to balance liking different aesthetics and anything can be fun and have a good and meaningful side to it.

[Kyng]

A war book for kids could be intense or nightmare inducing, so you gotta be careful how far you take it. That said, kids books are meant to be softer, fluffier, even scarier stuff (goosebumps for example isn’t all that scary IMO; it has its moments, but still can be generally pretty mild though I haven’t read a whole lot of books yet as a whole. But yeah, kids stuff shouldn’t be too intense ‘cos kids are growing and you don’t wanna traumatize them).

Even a lot of older kids books to some extent should have a softer edge, probably. There are kids who don’t mind being scared too much, but even braver kids have their general limitations for how dark something can be. Overall, you just gotta approach this kid of thing carefully with children.

I won’t say I am against the idea of this like I woulda been months ago, though. I am starting to understand that dark media isn’t nessasarly negative more these days, anyways. I am growing up more now.

It’s more food fight than war with a side of squirt guns.

Aha. That sounds quite funny and fun, actually I admit, I didn’t read all the posts in this thread xD;

I still shudder a little over war themes, but I am getting more tolerant of things overall now. I understand media is not meant to be good or bad, no matter what it themes around, even if a part of me doesn’t 100% grasp that too and that’s okay. It’s cool I am noticing I like sweet, fluffy, cute things a lot but I can also binge watch a scarier show like stranger things and darker kids books series (like goosebumps) are actually huge favourites of mine these days. Cos it’s great to balance liking different aesthetics and anything can be fun and have a good and meaningful side to it.

Yeah, like JHG said, this would only be loosely based on the Thirty Years War.

It'd be like The Lion King and Hamlet: the same basic story, but completely different characters, setting, and tone. Indeed, a child wouldn't even notice the parallels until they were old enough to start studying real-world history !

[JHG]

Wonder if there should also be teddy bears based on Mustafa I, Murad IV, Osman II, Ibrahim, Abbas I, Safi, and Abbas II to incorporate the Ottoman-Safavid War as well.

I definitely would have Ottoman and Safavid characters but have the Turks be cats and Iranians be lions.

[Kyng]

Wonder if there should also be teddy bears based on Mustafa I, Murad IV, Osman II, Ibrahim, Abbas I, Safi, and Abbas II to incorporate the Ottoman-Safavid War as well.

I definitely would have Ottoman and Safavid characters but have the Turks be cats and Iranians be lions.

Good idea - but, probably a bit outside the scope of the first book .

Maybe that could be for a sequel?

[JHG]

Wonder if there should also be teddy bears based on Mustafa I, Murad IV, Osman II, Ibrahim, Abbas I, Safi, and Abbas II to incorporate the Ottoman-Safavid War as well.

I definitely would have Ottoman and Safavid characters but have the Turks be cats and Iranians be lions.

Good idea - but, probably a bit outside the scope of the first book .

Maybe that could be for a sequel?

Done to reference the cats in Türkiye.

[JHG]

Instead of having the Thirty Years War characters represented as teddy bears, maybe instead have them be referencing national animals i.e. Spanish as fighting bull, Ottoman Empire/Türkiye as cat, British kingdoms as lion, France as chicken, etc. Not sure how this would work for the Austrians, Czech, or Prussians.