Best mates : three lads who went to war together / Philippa Werry and Bob Kerr.

By:

Werry, Philippa, 1958- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Kerr, Bob, 1951- [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland : New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd, 2014.Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:

9781869664114 :
9781869664114
1869664116

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Children's stories, New Zealand.

DDC classification:

NZ823.2 23

Summary: "The three young soldiers in the story are best friends from school, and they leave New Zealand together to go and fight at Gallipoli. Landing first in Egypt, they travel by ship to Anzac Cove and dig into trenches to fight the Turkish troops holding the peninsula. Conditions are tough and Joe gets sick, but his mates help him off on the hospital ship. Then Harry is fatally wounded and his burial has to take place on the cliff-top, away from the snipers. The three friends are reunited many years later, when the two men fly to Gallipoli and lay poppies on Harry's grave"--Publisher information.

List(s) this item appears in: Hāwera Reading Vine - Historical Fiction | Hāwera Reading Vine

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Picture Books	Eltham LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Picture Books	W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		I2156676
Picture Books	Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Picture Books	W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		i2156675

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Picture story book for children.

"The three young soldiers in the story are best friends from school, and they leave New Zealand together to go and fight at Gallipoli. Landing first in Egypt, they travel by ship to Anzac Cove and dig into trenches to fight the Turkish troops holding the peninsula. Conditions are tough and Joe gets sick, but his mates help him off on the hospital ship. Then Harry is fatally wounded and his burial has to take place on the cliff-top, away from the snipers. The three friends are reunited many years later, when the two men fly to Gallipoli and lay poppies on Harry's grave"--Publisher information.

Primary, intermediate.

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