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In Flanders Fields
by Norman Jorgensen with illustrations by Brian Harrison-Lever
Price $14.95 
- Illustrator
- Brian Harrison-Lever
- About the Book
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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
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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
- 1 92073 103 2
- ISBN13
- 9 781920 731038
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- Picture Book
- Pages
- 34
- Height x Width mm
- 279 x 224
- Teaching Notes
- IN FLANDERS FIELDS TEACHING NOTES WEB.pdf
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things