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Drummer Hoff was written back in 1968, during a time of unrest; war and civil rights protests, the assasinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy. I told the children that it was written in 1968, during a time when young men from our country had to go to war, when many citizens thought that the war was wrong. I told them that some of these citizens were called Hippies (they loved that word!), and I showed them the peace sign (most had seen it before). This Caldecott Award winning children’s book tells the tale of soldiers setting up a cannon, firing it, and then, well, the ending is interesting. My second graders got the message, and even made the connection to the time of our civil rights movement. Such sharp students!