TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Mark
TI  - My mother's eyes: the story of a boy soldier 
SN  - 9780734411914 (pbk.)
U1  - A823.4 22
PY  - 2011///, c2009
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Lothian Children's
KW  - Child soldiers
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Participation, Australian
N1  - Previously published: Sydney : Lothian Children's Books, 2009
N2  - 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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