- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; New Ed edition (18 Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140342990
- ISBN-13: 978-0140342994
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 346,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Michael Foreman is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator.
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a childhood of warmth and vitality, humour and humanity,
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This review is from: War Boy: A Country Childhood (Puffin Books) (Paperback)
This delightful story of a boy's experience of W.W 2 has an energy that is irresistable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A Child's View of Wartime England!,
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This review is from: War Boy: A Country Childhood (Hardcover)
Noted children's writer/illustrator Michael Foreman recaptures his childhood in wartime England in this charming, evocative book, a 1989 relase from Arcade Publishing. It offers a captivating look-back at a time and a place now far gone.
Foreman grew up in Pakefield, a fishing vilage on the coast of Suffolk. This area saw its share of air action during the war, bombing raids making up several drawings in WAR BOY. (An incendiary bomb actually went through his house). Foreman's illustrations of those raids - the AAA guns firing off, incendiaries burning in the street and German aircraft sweeping overheard - bring the war to vivid life. Yet other images show children playing in a shelter, a stretch of beach once a playground for residents now mined and blocked off with barbed wire, customers 'having a cuppa' at his mother's shop, barrage balloons floating in the sky, military parades, the arrival of the first Yanks and so on. The book ends with the ghostly image of an English youngster dressed as a native American and the evocative words that "the memory of those who passed through our village on the way to war will remain for ever with the ghosts of us children in the fields and woods of long ago." In many ways, WAR BOY is a priceless treasure. Its vivid imagery and poignant commentary presents a fascinating and heartfelt portrait of wartime England. Highly recommended. 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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It is an auto biography of a child during World War II,
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This review is from: War Boy: A Country Childhood (Hardcover)
Lowestoft a quiet seaside town in Suffolk was in the front during World War II. Bombing raids, fire and trips to the air raid shelter bacame almost daily events for young Micheal Foreman growing up in the 1940's. He lived in a small house with his mother himself and his brother's( his father had died when he was a baby).
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