The Thread That Held: Stories of Children in War (Ukrainian Edition)

This Ukrainian-language anthology gathers stories about children and teenagers whose childhood fell in the years of the full-scale war. They are told by well-known adults, including Halyna Vdovychenko, Olia Rusina, Fozzi, Artur Dron, Jonathan Stroud, Peter Pomerantsev, Oleksandra Matviichuk and Paweł Reszka, and are based on real accounts and lived experience.

The thread in the title means something different in every story: a link to home during the occupation, a memory of a relative who was killed, something small that held when everything else broke. The young heroes grow up during the war and in spite of it, keeping hope for the future and finding strength in the present. The book’s central idea is simple and important: childhood does not stop because of war.

A moving book for adults, for families who want to talk to teenagers about what Ukraine is living through, and for anyone abroad who wants to support Ukrainian children: part of the proceeds goes to the psychological and psychosocial programmes of the Voices of Children foundation.

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Edition details

• Language: Ukrainian
• Author: Various Authors
• Publisher: Old Lion Publishing House (Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva)
• Year: 2026
• Pages: 168
• Format: 145×200 mm
• ISBN: 978-966-448-738-9