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In Flanders Fields
A WWI children's picture book
Brief Description
Representing a moment of humanity in the brutality of war, In Flanders Fields is a gentle introduction for young readers to the horrors of the battlefield. Inspired by the true story of the 1914 Christmas Day truce in the trenches of Flanders early in World War...
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Description
Representing a moment of humanity in the brutality of war, In Flanders Fields is a gentle introduction for young readers to the horrors of the battlefield.
Inspired by the true story of the 1914 Christmas Day truce in the trenches of Flanders early in World War I, this moving picture book follows a homesick young soldier as he risks his life to cross into no-man's-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781760996246
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 March 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Fremantle Press
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Brian Harrison-Lever
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 198.0mm
Height: 251.0mm
Weight: 342g
Pages: 40
About the Author
Norman Jorgensen (Author) Norman Jorgensen became an avid reader after being given The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton at age seven. His love affair with books has never ended and for the past thirty years Norman has worked in the books trade. In addition to Jack's Island, Norman has published The Smuggler's Curse and his latest, The Wreckers' Revenge - and three picture books - In Flanders Fields, The Last Viking and The Last Viking Returns. Brian Harrison-Lever (Illustrator) With a career that started in television and film, Brian Harrison-Lever later lectured in design and drawing at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He won the 2003 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award and the 2003 American SPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award for In Flanders Fields.
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