Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Bigfoot vs Yeti: a love story by James Foley

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"The Bigfoot say it started when a Yeti threw a snowball across the rift. The Yetis say it started wen a Bigfoot threw some fruit acros...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Threads Zlata's Ukrainian Shirt by Lina Maslo

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 "Red is for love, and black is for sadness ... Life has good time and hard time. Even though the Communists are making life difficult,...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

This Morning I met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo illustrated by Christian Birmingham

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Michael, as the title tells you, meets a whale. But whales are not supposed to be in his part of the river Thames. And whales are not suppos...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan

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Take a look at the labels I have assigned to this post - curiosity, friendship and fear. Safiyyah lives in the mosque in Paris. The German a...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Spies in the Sky by Beverley McWilliams illustrated by Martina Heiduczek

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  Before you read this book I suggest you might try to find these picture books and also do some reading about the Dickin Medal .  32 pigeon...
Monday, November 20, 2023

The Treasure Box by Margaret Wild illustrated by Freya Blackwood

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  "This is a book about our people, about us ...  it is rarer than rubies, more splendid than silver, greater than gold." Publishe...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes

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The setting for this book is Italy in 1944. Florence is occupied by the German army but the Italian resistance movement are hard at work res...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus

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Reading this book over the last couple of days has been a joyous and absorbing reading journey. I read the final chapters on the train this ...