I want to jump right into this so....
One awesome resource I think will be Wilson Web as I will be able to search their Core Collections, which date back to 2007. This will give me an idea of what is available now. Plus, I can modify searching by book grade level so I am going to stick with 4 grade and below, as these are always below middle school level. I think that I will then have to manually just look through results. Upon this search with the keyword 'war' search for nonfiction books, there are some 160+ results. Clearly, I will have to dwindle my survey group down some.
Even just focusing on picture book would be too overwhelming to be able to do from the last 60 years. So, I could choose the best (which I would probably define as more popular) 10 or so from every 5 years. That would leave me with about 120 books to review. Still too much?
Sounds like a plan; as far as whether 120 is too much, you could propose a pilot using a small number to test your approach.
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