In "Flanders Fields": The Western Front for (and through) the Eyes of a Child
In "Flanders Fields": The Western Front for (and through) the Eyes of a Child

Summary/Abstract: My paper analyses how some modern and contemporary children and young adults’ picture books tell and portray the First World War, in particular trench warfare on the Western Front. In order to do this, I have chosen modern and contemporary picture books which not only describe the war to children, but they also do it through children’s eyes. My starting point is John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” and Linda Granfield’s In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae (1995), illustrated by Janet Wilson. Daily life in the trenches is also dealt with in Norman Jorgensen’s In Flanders Fields (illustrated by Brian Harrison-Lever) and Lynn Huggins-Cooper’ One Boy’s War (illustrated by Ian Benfold-Haywood), published, respectively, in 2002 and 2008.

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