2015. This lovely picture book, about some children who find a beached whale and try to save it, is really sad. Not for sensitive readers, but the story is realistic and as the author’s note in the back of the book says,“Beachings are always sad, . . . but the good news is ...
Before the start of the First World War, Britain relied heavily on imported grain from America for the production of bread. With the availability of grain limited by unrestricted German submarine warfare from January 1917, combined with a poorer than expected harvest in 1916 and the continued depl...
Before the start of the First World War, Britain relied heavily on imported grain from America for the production of bread. With the availability of grain limited by unrestricted German submarine warfare from January 1917, combined with a poorer than expected harvest in 1916 and the continued depl...
in a war in which millions would die, there seems a terrible waste of life and a deal of pathos in the loss of a creature as majestic as the Birchington whale. Though bombs and mines were bad news for the whales, their corpses could contribute to the war effort. Pycraft highlighted the...