Armistice Runner (Conkers)

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Your selection was perfect for our children and what really made the difference was your ability to engage with each child, discuss their interests and help them to choose a suitable book based on your extensive knowledge of the books you were selling. To add it is written form the point of view of one soldiers which makes it more personal and it makes it easier to relate. On a visit to her grandparents' home, she finds her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War and discovers that he was a fell-runner like her. Anyone who has witnessed a loved one’s decline after a diagnosis with Alzheimer’s will know it is brutal and heartwrenching to see. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

See also … Ten national and local opportunities that schools in the UK can take to mark the Armistice centenary this November. I think this was a great fit for history books and children’s books because it wasn’t all about the World War, it was about Lily’s feelings and running. Could his incredible story of bravery help her reconnect with her gran and even give her the inspiration she needs to push through and win? It was a real eye-opener to me because I really got a clear understanding of what it would have been like out on the front line, fighting for your country. But this isn't only a book about sports or war - it's a just a great story, expertly told, and one that every child should have a chance to read.I also enjoyed how it taught me about another facet of World War One that I didn't know much about at all namely the runners used at the front line to send messages and share information across the front. She’s struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she’s losing her gran to Alzheimer’s. Best-selling author Tom Palmer has a track record of bringing together his passions for sport and history in popular stories with a high appeal in primary schools.

I personally believe that the level of detail was what made it come to life even more for the reader. More First World War Literacy Resources to accompany Over the Line , Wings: Flyboy and Armistice Runner (Posters, videos, playscripts and quizzes) downloadable from here. Many children will identify with Lily's love of her sport, how annoying her little brother is and how worried she is about her grandma. When her family visit her grandparents, she discovers the running diaries of her great-great-grandfather.

He always expected more than she could actually produce and it seemed that his main goal in life was to bring his own daughter down when actually he should be doing the opposite and trying to make her feel good about herself. The genre is fiction however it is an event, especially with the mental illness, that could happen to anyone.