The Great War : stories inspired by items from the First World War / David Almond [and 10 others] ; illustrated by Jim Kay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015Copyright date: 2014Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780763675547
  • 0763675547
Other title:
  • Stories inspired by items from the First World War
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JUV PZ 5 .G74 2015
Contents:
Our Jacko / Michael Morpurgo (Brodie helmet) -- Another kind of missing / A.L. Kennedy (Compass) -- Don't call it glory / Marcus Sedgwick (Nose of a Zeppelin bomb) -- The country you called home / John Boyne (Recruitment poster) -- When they were needed most / Tracy Chevalier (Princess Mary's Gift Fund box) -- A world that has no war in it / David Almond (Soldier's writing case) -- A Harlem Hellfighter and his horn / Tanya Lee Stone (Sheet music) -- Maud's story / Ad�ele Geras (War-time butter dish) -- Captain Rosalie / Timoth�ee de Fombelle (Victoria Cross) -- Each slow dusk / Sheena Wilkinson (School magazines) -- Little wars / Ursula Dubosarsky (French toy soldier).
Summary: Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war.
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Originally published: London : Walker Books, 2014.

Our Jacko / Michael Morpurgo (Brodie helmet) -- Another kind of missing / A.L. Kennedy (Compass) -- Don't call it glory / Marcus Sedgwick (Nose of a Zeppelin bomb) -- The country you called home / John Boyne (Recruitment poster) -- When they were needed most / Tracy Chevalier (Princess Mary's Gift Fund box) -- A world that has no war in it / David Almond (Soldier's writing case) -- A Harlem Hellfighter and his horn / Tanya Lee Stone (Sheet music) -- Maud's story / Ad�ele Geras (War-time butter dish) -- Captain Rosalie / Timoth�ee de Fombelle (Victoria Cross) -- Each slow dusk / Sheena Wilkinson (School magazines) -- Little wars / Ursula Dubosarsky (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.

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