Six brothers are drafted into the army. On the way to the front, they need to come to the border post and bring a gift for the good of the World. The brothers have neither valuable offerings nor money to cross the border, but they have stories to tell: about an orphan who lived at the bottom of a well and about a baker, about a cursed lake and the salvation of his brother, about a sandy bride, about a young saint who can prevent war, and, finally, about a dwarf who became a puppet doll. The brothers tell and tell stories to the lonely and forgotten Sentinel at his post, telling them as if someone's life depended on it. Which is true. In this anti-war novel, award-winning Dutch writer Benny Lindelauf displays supreme stylistic skill, with prose reminiscent of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Patrick Suskind. Ludwig Volbeda, who also illustrated Lindelauf's previous novel, complemented the book with melancholy and meditative images of desert landscapes in faded colors. 5 reasons to buy the book “Big Stories for the Little Soldier”: • The book is like a work of art: the highest stylistic and artistic skill of the writer Benny Lindelauf and the illustrator Ludwig Volbeda;• Winner of the prestigious literary award of the Netherlands “Silver Lead” 2021 as the best children's book;• The artistic technique of “story within history” immerses in the plot and holds the reader’s attention until the end;• The book is about how all wars are replaced by peace, and everything stories end;• Translation from Dutch by Ekaterina Asoyan, Irina Leichenko and Irina Mikhailova.