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On Christmas morning, a young soldier leaves his place on the firing line to free a robin that is trapped in a tangle of barbed wire.
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Norman Jorgensen was born in Broome, Australia in 1954. The eldest of four boys, he lived in several country towns before his parents settled in the hills above Perth. His interest in history and World War I was fired by Saturday afternoon films and the novels he read as a boy. He has had a lifelong passion for books and has spent many years working as a bookseller. He now lives in an old house in Perth with his partner Jan.
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Born in England, Brian Harrison-Lever arrived in Australia as a young teenager in the 1950s. A teacher of drawing and design, he has had a lifelong interest in mountains. He was co-founder of Western Australia's first Himalayan trekking company, leading eighteen high altitude adventures. But he continues to see illustrating children's books as his greatest challenge. He has two adult children and lives in Tasmania with his wife.
Grade 4 Up-Jorgensen and Harrison-Lever have set their picture book in the gray and bloody landscape of the World War I trenches. "Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape." A soldier sees a robin trapped in barbed wire and decides to rescue it, protected from the German snipers only by his white silk scarf tied to his bayonet. The illustrations perfectly reinforce the somber tone of the story-the soldiers are drawn in gray tones with touches of khaki, against which the bird shines brightly, as does the momentary triumph of the human spirit. "And as he walks away, from the trenches behind him he can hear hoarse, lonely voices beginning to sing: "Stille nacht, heilige nacht-." Although the incident may be completely fictional, the book stands as a powerful story and could easily be paired with Linda Granfield's In Flanders Fields (Stoddart, 2000) and Michael Foreman's retelling of the 1914 Christmas Day cease-fire in War Game (Arcade, 1994).
Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
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Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherFremantle Arts Center Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1863683690
- ISBN 13 9781863683692
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages36
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Harrison-Lever, Brian (illustrator). First Edition. A 'Sandcastle Book', HB, matte pictorial boards in like DJ, c.32pp, watercolour illus, pict epp. This is a new copy that is signed by the author to the author to title page. Touching story of WW1 in the trenches of Flanders. Ravishing illustrations. Short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia awards. Gift suitable for a child on ANZAC Day. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # jct006087
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