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In Flanders Fields

by Norman Jorgensen with illustrations by Brian Harrison-Lever

Price $16.95

Illustrator: Brian Harrison-Lever

About the Book

Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape. A young soldier peers through a periscope over the top of the trench. Way out in no-man’s-land, he sees a small red shape moving on the barbed wire. A brightly coloured robin is trapped. One wing is flapping helplessly.

An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier, who risks his life to cross the no-man’s land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces, dug into their trenches. This moving picture book is a plea for compassion.

Categories

Children's Picture Books, Award Winning

Publication Year

2002, 2004

Edition

2nd

Publisher

Fremantle Press

Awards

Short listed, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 2002
Winner, Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year, 2003
Honour Book, American SPCA Henry Burgh Award, 2004

ISBN11