My mother's eyes : the story of a boy soldier / Child soldiers World War, 1914-1918
Wilson, Mark, 1949-
My mother's eyes : the story of a boy soldier / Mark Wilson. - Pbk. ed. - Sydney : Lothian Children's, 2011, c2009. - [32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Previously published: Sydney : Lothian Children's Books, 2009.
PICTURE STORYBOOKS. AUSTRALIAN. A fifteen-year-old Australian farm boy lies about his age to enlist to war and is caught up in the horrors of World War I in Egypt and on the Western Front, where 5,500 Australian troops were lost in two days at Fromelles alone. This boy s story in this unique, stirring picture book is based on true stories of the twenty-three teenage soldiers one only fourteen who fought with the Australian army in World War I, as recorded at the Australian War Memorial (their names among a list of 60,000 Australian soldiers killed in that war). The author s grandfather was a boy soldier who, unlike the hero of the book, did survive to return home. Told in the boy s own simple language and with extracts from his letters home, the story is extremely moving and evocative of the real tragedy of that worst of all wars. Ages 7+.
9780734411914 (pbk.)
Child soldiers--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian--Juvenile fiction.
A823.4
My mother's eyes : the story of a boy soldier / Mark Wilson. - Pbk. ed. - Sydney : Lothian Children's, 2011, c2009. - [32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Previously published: Sydney : Lothian Children's Books, 2009.
PICTURE STORYBOOKS. AUSTRALIAN. A fifteen-year-old Australian farm boy lies about his age to enlist to war and is caught up in the horrors of World War I in Egypt and on the Western Front, where 5,500 Australian troops were lost in two days at Fromelles alone. This boy s story in this unique, stirring picture book is based on true stories of the twenty-three teenage soldiers one only fourteen who fought with the Australian army in World War I, as recorded at the Australian War Memorial (their names among a list of 60,000 Australian soldiers killed in that war). The author s grandfather was a boy soldier who, unlike the hero of the book, did survive to return home. Told in the boy s own simple language and with extracts from his letters home, the story is extremely moving and evocative of the real tragedy of that worst of all wars. Ages 7+.
9780734411914 (pbk.)
Child soldiers--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian--Juvenile fiction.
A823.4