The Great War : stories inspired by items from the First World War /
The Great War : stories inspired by items from the First World War /
Stories inspired by items from the First World War
David Almond [and 10 others] ; illustrated by Jim Kay.
- First U.S. edition.
- 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Originally published: London : Walker Books, 2014.
Our Jacko / Another kind of missing / Don't call it glory / When they were needed most / A world that has no war in it / A Harlem Hellfighter and his horn / Maud's story / Captain Rosalie / Each slow dusk / Little wars / Michael Morpurgo A.L. Kennedy Marcus Sedwick The country you called home / John Boyne Tracy Chevalier David Almond Tanya Lee Stone Adèle Geras Timothée de Fombelle Sheena Wilkinson Ursula Dubosarsky (Brodie helmet) -- (Compass) -- (Nose of a Zeppelin bomb) -- (Recruitment poster) -- (Princess Mary's Gift Fund box) -- (Soldier's writing case) -- (Sheet music) -- (War-time butter dish) -- (Victoria Cross) -- (School magazines) -- (French toy soldier).
Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war.
0763675547 (hardcover) 9780763675547 (hardcover)
2013955699
Children's stories, English.
Historical fiction, English.
World War, 1914-1918--Juvenile fiction.
War--Fiction.
War stories.
Short stories.
Originally published: London : Walker Books, 2014.
Our Jacko / Another kind of missing / Don't call it glory / When they were needed most / A world that has no war in it / A Harlem Hellfighter and his horn / Maud's story / Captain Rosalie / Each slow dusk / Little wars / Michael Morpurgo A.L. Kennedy Marcus Sedwick The country you called home / John Boyne Tracy Chevalier David Almond Tanya Lee Stone Adèle Geras Timothée de Fombelle Sheena Wilkinson Ursula Dubosarsky (Brodie helmet) -- (Compass) -- (Nose of a Zeppelin bomb) -- (Recruitment poster) -- (Princess Mary's Gift Fund box) -- (Soldier's writing case) -- (Sheet music) -- (War-time butter dish) -- (Victoria Cross) -- (School magazines) -- (French toy soldier).
Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war.
0763675547 (hardcover) 9780763675547 (hardcover)
2013955699
Children's stories, English.
Historical fiction, English.
World War, 1914-1918--Juvenile fiction.
War--Fiction.
War stories.
Short stories.