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One minute's silence / written by David Metzenthen ; illustrated by Michael Camilleri.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2014.Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781743316245
  • 1743316240 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
  • 940.426 23
LOC classification:
  • D641 .M49 2014
Awards:
  • Shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Award 2015, Picture Book of the Year. 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Fiction.
Summary: A moving and powerful story about the meaning of Remembrance Day, drawing on the ANZAC and Turkish battle at Gallipoli. In the silence that follows a war long gone, you can see what the soldiers saw, you can feel what the soldiers felt. And if you try, you might be able to imagine the enemy, and see that he is not so different from you.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded Children's Books
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Junior collection MET Available 059252
Total reserves: 0

A moving and powerful story about the meaning of Remembrance Day, drawing on the ANZAC and Turkish battle at Gallipoli. In the silence that follows a war long gone, you can see what the soldiers saw, you can feel what the soldiers felt. And if you try, you might be able to imagine the enemy, and see that he is not so different from you.

For primary school students.

Shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Award 2015, Picture Book of the Year.
2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Fiction.

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