Simpson and his Donkey by Mark Greenwood
$18.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
The heroic story of one man and a donkey - and the strange twist of fate that brought two boyhood friends together one last time during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. A poignant account of the story of John Kirkpatrick Simpson and how he and his donkey, Duffy, rescued over 300 men during the cam ...Show more
Australia Remembers - Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and War Memorials by Allison Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
Every year there are special days when we remember all those who have fought in the past to keep Australia free and those who still fight today to keep us safe. On 25 April - Anzac Day - and on 11 November - Remembrance Day - we stop to think about those people and how much they have done for us. Anzac ...Show more
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the Firs ...Show more
Lest We Forget (HB) by Kerry Brown
$16.98 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
My granddad says that there are two types of days: those you want to remember and those you want to forget ... A little boy visits his granddad and thinks about the important days in his life: his first day of school, playing soccer with his team, the day his baby sister was born. Yet through the illust ...Show more
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother's goat, the clanking ...Show more
A Poppy for Pa by Rebecca Laing Zammit; Annelies Billeter (Illustrator)
$16.95 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
Pa has a lot of great stories to tell, but his greatest story explains why he wears a red poppy. A story about Gallipoli, remembrance and why we say 'Lest We Forget'.
This Old Thing (HB) by Cassandra Webb
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
When a young boy is asked to bring an object to contribute to his class ANZAC project, he finds all kinds of old things—some wildly exciting, others more confusing. But a faded, forgotten photograph of his great-great-grandfather makes sense of everything ...
Lighthouse Girl (PB) by Dianne Wolfer
$19.98 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
Fay lives alone with her father on bleak, windswept Breaksea Island, but her isolated life takes a dramatic turn with the outbreak of World War 1. Based on the true story of Fay Howe, this gentle tale brings to life the hardships of those left at home during the war. Drawing on fascinating archival mate ...Show more
The Anzac Billy by Claire Saxby
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
A tender, moving story of a child waiting at home for the return of his father from serving in WWI. During World War I, Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the front were sent Christmas care packages in a tin billy. The Anzac Billy is the heartwarming story of a little boy packing a billy with all h ...Show more
When the War Is Over by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST-LOVED AUTHORS COMES A BOOK ABOUT HOMECOMINGS, AND THE ENDURING POWER OF LOVE. Now the war is over And they say the world is free, Though somewhere guns are snarling, You've come back to me. War may never truly end, but there can be homecomings. From two of Australia's most h ...Show more
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature by Pierre-Jacques Ober
$34.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books | Series: Miniature
A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French s ...Show more
The Flying Angel by Vicki Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: War Picture Books
World War II. 1945. A group of nurses is handpicked to rescue injured soldiers from the frontline in Papua New Guinea, and transport them safely back home to Australia. Known for their courage and compassion, the soldiers call them... the Flying Angels. This is a story inspired by the life of one remark ...Show more