Arms and the Boy Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon Media", and "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books". The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon is a 2010 children's novel by David Almond. It is about a boy, Paul, who wants to touch the sky; he then climbs a ladder to the Moon and goes inside. A "Booktrust" review of "The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon" wrote "Beautiful colour illustrations complement a surreal modern fairytale, which fluent young readers will enjoy on their own but which could equally well be read aloud." and in a starred review "Kirkus Reviews" wrote