The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature

The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature
Author: Pierre-Jacques Ober
Publisher: Candlewick Studio
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 153620482X

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A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French soldier named Pierre had quietly left his regiment to visit his family for two days, and when he returned, he was imprisoned. Now he faces execution for desertion, and as he waits in isolation, he meditates on big questions: the nature of patriotism, the horrors of war, the joys of friendship, the love of family, and how even in times of danger, there is a whole world inside every one of us. And how sometimes that world is the only refuge. Its publication coinciding with the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, this moving and sparely narrated story, based on true events, is reenacted in fascinating miniature scenes that convey the emotional complexity of the tale. Notes from the creators explore the innovative process and their personal connection to the story.

The Patchwork Bike

The Patchwork Bike
Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0734416695

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Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award 2019 Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator 2017 Selected as a CBCA Honour Picture Book 2017 Shortlisted for PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 2018 'Beautifully written and incredibly powerful.' Books + Publishing 'this book is just what many of us need right now' - starred Kirkus Review When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a numberplate from bark, if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpity-bump over sandhills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A delightful story from multi-award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van T Rudd.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline
Author: Pierre-Jacques Ober
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Algiers (Algeria)
ISBN: 9781925804911

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My name is Jacqueline. I was just a little girl when war broke out. It was a time when all the adults seemed to have gone crazy. Papa wore the uniform and carried the gun, but Maman was the one, brave and fierce, who kept my world from falling apart. You'll learn why I hate clocks, why sheep give me nightmares and how sisters can come from the most unexpected places!

All Blood Runs Red. Book One - the Good Son

All Blood Runs Red. Book One - the Good Son
Author: Pierre-Jacques and Jules
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781366050212

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Featuring 185 stunning photographs of small scale figurines placed in miniature sets, the [photo]graphic novel 'All Blood Runs Red - The Good Son' is the first of four stories in an epic visual re-imagining of World War One.France - 26th December 1914. In a barn in a small hamlet behind the french front line, we encounter Pierre Dubois, accused of desertion and awaiting judgement. We sit with him through an emotionally charged night as he relives the excitement and optimism of first few months of the war and its terrible descent into chaos and carnage. He examines friendships, duty, family and God and we discover the reason for his desertion before going with him to meet his fate. Concept, story and sets by Pierre-Jacques Ober Photography, lighting and graphics by Jules Ober Titles, book design and graphics by Felicity Coonan

Hitler Moves East

Hitler Moves East
Author: G. B. Trudeau
Publisher: Levinthal and Trudeau
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781449428594

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“A serious chronicle of war and a sympathetic—even moving—portrayal of the soldier’s hopeless stoicism. " — New York Times First published to little notice in 1977, Hitler Moves East is now widely regarded as a groundbreaking classic of modern photography. In this elegant, large-format limited edition, David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau’s seminal book is finally being presented at a scale that does full justice to their haunting vision of war. As the New York Times pointed out ten years after publication, “Levinthal’s war pictures are radically new," and indeed they were. Using cheap, molded plastic toy soldiers and tanks, art school classmates Trudeau and Levinthal conceived a fascinating new narrative form, a “paper movie,” at once deeply evocative and unabashedly fake. Combining selected archival materials with photographs of 1/35-scale toys placed in meticulously constructed miniature settings, the two artists conjured up an astonishing reimagining of World War II’s most epic campaign—the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Traveling precariously between fantasy and reality, Levinthal and Trudeau produced a work now recognized as both a sublime graphic manifesto and a powerful documentary of men at war. David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau began their collaboration on Hitler Moves East shortly after both had graduated from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1973. Levinthal has since published numerous book of photographs, including Modern Romance, The Wild West, and Mein Kampf. Trudeau is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the long-running comic strip Doonesbury.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476746605

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

General Catalogue of Printed Books

General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1362
Release: 1969
Genre: English imprints
ISBN:

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One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time
Author: Jane Jolly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Boys
ISBN: 9780987380951

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One Step at a Time is a story about a boy, a baby elephant and a landmine.

A Long Long Way

A Long Long Way
Author: Sebastian Barry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101075767

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A powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.

Stories Are What Save Us

Stories Are What Save Us
Author: David Chrisinger
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1421440806

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A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.