Winter in Wartime

A Dutch-made Boys' Own adventure yarn, set during the winter of 1944 as Holland endured the Nazis' icy grip. Michiel, a fresh-faced 14-year-old, yearns to join the resistance, stumbles across an injured British airman in a wood outside of town, and has to dodge the Germans to get food and medicine to the fugitive. Apparently it was a big Christmas hit in the Netherlands, and is entirely well-meaning – but it's all a little staid. Kids these days may demand a little more edge.