One of the most tragic events of the 20th century was the senseless slaughter and sacrifice of many young men on the battlefields of the Somme,Verdun and Passchendaele. The iconic 1914 recruitment poster of Lord Kitchener, wearing a cap of a British Field Marshall, stares and points at the viewer pl...
I am not sure what to make of this one. It was a bit of a weird book, for various reasons. One it just ended, like that, without anything after it. It felt like the book was missing a part. Oh hey, I solved the problem, and then bam, over. We don't find out how it will continue for Clare and her mum...
SUMMARYJoey, a beautiful blood-red bay colt, is purchased at an auction out of spite and brought to be a farm horse. There, he develops a relationship with farm boy Albert, a bond that will last even when the two are separated for war. WORLDBUILDINGI’m not into war stories, but I’m less into WWII th...
Normally, if I saw a children's book that was around 200 pages long and filled with illustrations, I would be skeptical about it being a good story. But I've read one like it before, by the same author so I was pretty hopeful about this one too. It really lived up to my expectations! If the name Mic...
I've been interested in seeing the movie War Horse since I heard about it. Oh and about the cast: And for other reasons... I realized it was a book and picked it up as an audiobook. It's not a long audiobook, just over four hours. Since I had a lot of driving for work I ended up finishing it ...
bookshelves: wwi, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, published-1982, autumn-2010, war, young-adult Recommended for: BBC7 listeners Read on November 14, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...First World War tale of a boy's extraordinary bond with his horse. Stars Timothy Spall, Brenda Blet...
I love this book! Any dog rescue story would probably have had me blubbing, so the story of Best Mate the greyhound really did it for me - i rescue greyhounds myself!Brilliant descriptive writing and loveable characters (even the humans!) made this book ever so readable - I couldn't put it down.
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