ANZAC AND WORLD WAR 1 STORIES

Australian authors and illustrators have been very busy over the last year or so creating many outstanding books to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ANZACS landing at Gallipoli. We have several in our library, most of which are aimed at older students, purely due to the content of the material.

In particular many picture books have been created to help children understand the events of the time and their impact on Australia's history. Many of them are quite sad and sometimes confronting  and while they are picture books, they are better suited to older students. However, many are outstanding in the way they communicate the significance of what happened before, during and after the events at Gallipoli both in the words and illustrations.   
Here are some of the picture books and novels books we have about ANZAC day and World War 1.

Picture books:
The beach they called Gallipoli     Jackie French          A day to remember      Jackie French
Simpson and his donkey  Mark Greenwood               One minute's silence David Metzenthen
Meet the Anzacs  Claire Saxby                                                 Anzac biscuits Phil Cummings
The house that was built in a day Valerie Everett                              The poppy Andrew Plant
My grandad marches on Anzac Day   Catriona Hoy      In Flanders fields   Norman Jorgensen
Do not forget Australia   Sally Murphy                           I was only nineteen   John Schumann    
The soldier's gift Tony Palmer                                             
The horse soldier  Mark Wilson   There are several outstanding picture books in this series by Mark Wilson. The local library is sure to have them. 

 

 

              

Novels:
1915    Sally Murphy             Scarecrow army: the Anzacs at Gallipoli Leon Davidson
Jimmy's war 1915     Sherryl Clark           Caesar the ANZAC dog         Patricia Stroud
The Lighthorse Boy Dianne Wolfer       Our Australian girl : Alice's story Davina Bell 
Zero hour: the Anzcas on the Western Front     Leon Davidson
Loyal creatures      Morris Gleitzman