Sometimes kids hear words on the news that are hard to understand.

This picture book series called "Children in Our World" aims at helping children make sense of the larger issues and crises that dominate the news in a sensitive and appropriate manner.

Illustrations by: Hanane Kai

Hand texturing of illustrations by: Sarah Habli

Text by: Louise Spilsbury and Ceri Roberts

Published by: Wayland Hachette Group

When the four books are put next to each other, a full globe is formed representing the viscus cycle of war with no start and no end; where war leads to people leaving their home, which leads to poverty, which leads to racism and intolerance, which leads to war and so on and so forth.

The books on display in Bologna Children's Book Fair, Hachette's stand.