"I know here is a war going on, but I don't know why...I hear about bombs on the television, about bombs going off in shops and on buses, and it makes me afraid.

What are my three wishes? I want to be an artist. I want to dance. And I want to be old." The war in the Middle East has been going on for so long, and in so many forms, that it often seems as if it will continue for ever.

But war, like almost everything else humans do, is a choice.

The children in this book talk about how the choices other people have made have affected their lives.