One Boys War by Lynn Huggins-Cooper

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One Boys War by Lynn Huggins-Cooper12.26$
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Frances Lincoln Children’s Books (4 Nov. 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847801269
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847801265
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 – 11 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 24.13 x 0.32 x 27.94 cm

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Description

Recommended as part of the Building Bridges of Understanding for 3rd to 6th class to support children’s use of predicting.

Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality – and the rats – begin to bite. Told through Sydney’s optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I. ‘Find room for this indictment of the First World War’ – Bookseller

Review

I thoroughly enjoyed this realistic and amazing picture book which reproduces letters on some pages and has soft, glossy paper. It brings the war to life and tells the story of a real boy and many others like him who went to war in 1914. Sofia Hurtado (age 11)

About the Author

Lynne Huggins-Cooper has published over 100 books for children including picture books, educational and non-fiction titles, craft and parenting books. She also writes regularly for the TES and Prima magazine. This is her first picture-book for Frances Lincoln. Lynne lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. IAN BENFOLD HAYWOOD studied Fine Art at the Nottingham School of Art and Design and Illustration at the North Wales School of Art & Design. He has painted in Spain, worked as a community artist and been an art teacher, been marketing manager for a Japanese company and established his own business supplying components to the major audio-logical manufacturers in Europe as well as illustrating a number of children’s books. Ian lives in Chester.