Dream / Steven Kellogg -- Two brothers / Lloyd Alexander illustrated by Dirk Zimmer -- There is an island / Jean Fritz illustrated by Teri Sloat -- Game / Myra Cohn Livingston illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky -- Tree house / Lois Lowry illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman -- They that take the sword / Milton Meltzer illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher -- Law of the great peace / adapted by Joh Bierhorst illustrated by Barbara Cooney -- Bus for deadhorse / Natalie Babbitt illustrated by Jon Agee -- Letter from a concentration camp / Yoshiko Uchida illustrated by Allen Say -- Enemies / Charlotte Zolotow illustrated by Ben Shecter -- Birds' peace / Jean Craighead George illustrated by Ted Rand -- Silent lobby / Mildred Pitts Walter illustrated by Jerry Pinkney -- Wild safe place / Maurice Sendak -- One more time / Nancy Willard Diane and Leo Dillon -- I was there / Marilyn Sachs illustrated by Marc Simont -- Midnight clear / Katherine Paterson illustrated by Thomas B. Allen -- Ruckus / Thacher Hurd.

The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dillons, and Maurice Sendak.