CONTINUING WITH OUR 100 YEAR COMMEMORATION FOR ANZAC.

Stubby the Dog Soldier

Stubby has been called the most decorated 
war dog of World War 1!

Lest We Forget

BY OUR VERY OWN FEANA TU'AKOI

Tyson doesn't understand why Mum and Poppa would want to go to the Anzac Dawn Parade. Why celebrate anything as stupid as war? But then he hears stories about the soldiers in his family and decides perhaps he should go to the Dawn Parade after all.

Jim's Letters

 Winner of a Storylines Notable Picture Book Award 2015

 Dear Jim,

  Your postcard arrived today. I showed it to the family. Mum misses you . . .

Between December 1914 and August 1915 Tom and Jim write to each other whenever they get a chance. Tom talks about life at home on the farm while Jim writes from Egypt and then from the trenches of the Gallipoli peninsula.

From the author and illustrator of Le Quesnoy comes a moving story of two brothers separated by war. It is based on the thousands of letters sent by and to Anzac soldiers fighting at Gallipoli, one of the most significant campaigns of the First World War.

This beautiful hardback depicts life at war and on the home front with exquisite illustrations by Jenny Cooper and fold-out letter inserts.

Welcome back to school!

Come into your library to see the 

ANZAC commemorative display.

Anzac Ted

This is a story about the Anzac spirit 

and how, through courage, loyalty and love, a child’s teddy bear helped to bring our soldiers home.

Click this link to enjoy the story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1RtELN9AI

Roly, the Anzac Donkey

Hello. My name is Roly. I'm a donkey.

Let me tell you about the time during the First World War when I worked at a place called Gallipoli. I met a man there from New Zealand who was very special. He and I worked as a team to help rescue soldiers who had been hurt in battle.

Based on real people and events, this is the heartwarming story of Richard Alexander Henderson, a soldier in the New Zealand Medical Corps, and the donkey he discovers wandering and hungry on a Gallipoli road. Richard and Roly form a strong friendship and, working together, they courageously save the lives of many wounded soldiers.

But now the army has received top-secret orders to leave Gallipoli – and quickly. All the donkeys must be left behind. Richard is heartbroken. What will become of his dear friend Roly?

Poets of World War 1

World War I was one of the greatest conflicts in modern history and yet it produced some of the best poetry of the 20th century. Many peoples first encounter with poetry is through writers like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and the passion and power they find in it makes a very deep impact. This collective biography of poets like Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Graves, Rosenberg, Brittain, Sorley, and Seeger, along with potted biographies of many other war poets, gives the background of the poets' experiences to explain how the war created so much important poetry and why we keep coming back to this work a hundred years later.

HOLY WEEK

We wish you a happy, holy Easter

and safe, restful holiday.