I Am David

Wonderful book. Beautifully written and perfectly captures David's feelings and experiences. Highly recommended.

Imagine what you might be like if you had spent your entire childhood in a concentration camp. That is the main character of our story, David. And then one day, totally out of the blue, imagine a guard helps you to escape. That is our story.

David knows several languages and has a deep sense of right and wrong, all because of his tutelage under a wise older man in the camp. But he is missing lots of things most children know, like how to smile and how to play. All he knows is that he wants to find “a country with a king” so that he can live in freedom, and that he doesn't want to ever become like “them,” treating people with cruelty and violence.

He meets many people who are kind and helpful in his journey, and he decides he wants to live. He chooses a God, the God of David, spoken of in the camps, the God who allows people to “lie down in green pastures, and sit beside still waters,” a God who can help David find a safe place to live. He comes to rely on his God amid the troubles he runs across in his journey.

A very deep and thoughtful story that children could all benefit from reading, I think.