TAMBA, Child Soldier chronicles the harsh realities of guerilla warfare and child soldiers as Tamba recounts his experiences as a child soldier to a UN tribunal. His description of his horrible experience of being kidnapped from his village at the age of eight, and forced into servitude as a child soldier is just shocking to the senses. The atrocities that Tamba and other children were forced to commit are not sugar-coated. This gripping story, accompanied by detailed and descriptive illustrations, is not an easy read. But the story needs telling, as many middle grade and teen readers, as well as many adults, have no idea that there are thousands of children who have been kidnapped and forced to be child soldiers.