The Story of the First World War for Children: 1914-1918 John Malam
Publisher: Carlton Books

The Story of the First World War for Children 1914-1918. The Children's War, Britain 1914–1918 re-directs our attention to the lives of British children in the Great War. History resources about World War One for primary and secondary school children and teachers. Great War 14-18 site with explicit graphic pictures, real color photographs, and thought-provoking articles on the First World War 1914 - 1918 (using English and Dutch/Flemish: Eerste Wereldoorlog) Kid-Soldiers in the Great War (50 pics). First World War's well-organized and thorough uptake of children into a war culture mentioned with pride when the history of this war comes to be written. The class could try games and pastimes that children in World War One Many children in 1914-1918 made warm knitwear to send to How does music help to tell the story of a silent film? The University of Oxford has a selection of comics of the time as part of its First World War Digital Poetry Archive. What are the best books on the first world war for children? Buy Stories of World War One by Tony Bradman (ISBN: 9781408330357) from Amazon's Book Store. 1.1 Share of War Books in Total Production of Children's Literature Borrowing from the history painting genre, images of the pre-war period were reproduced. Indeed, the story is not one of 1914-18 but of 1912-23, as the vast majority of with the war effort throughout 1914-1918, with 1916 a pivotal year. The scale of the First World War was unprecedented; it was also the first war between industrialised nations with new and terrifying weapons. The First World War was the world's first 'total war'. Zunino, Berenice: Children's Literature, in: 1914-1918-online. John Malam, with support from the Imperial War Museum, has produced a fantastic picture book which covers the bases in a brisk but elegant fashion.