My mother's eyes : the story of a boy soldier / Mark Wilson.
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TextPublication details: Sydney : Lothian Children's, 2011, c2009Edition: Pbk. edDescription: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN: 9780734411914 (pbk.)Subject(s): Child soldiers -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian -- Juvenile fictionDDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 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+.
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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+.
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