Recommended as part of the Building Bridges of Understanding for 3rd to 6th
class to support children's use of predicting.

Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914
recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War.

Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a
long way from home in a frontline trench where reality - and the rats - begin
to bite.

Told through Sydney's optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his
honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in
the trenches of World War I.

'Find room for this indictment of the First World War' - Bookseller About the
Author.

Lynne Huggins-Cooper has published over 100 books for children including
picture books, educational and non-fiction titles, craft and parenting books.
She also writes regularly for the TES and Prima magazine. This is her first
picture-book for Frances Lincoln. Lynne lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. .
IAN BENFOLD HAYWOOD studied Fine Art at the Nottingham School of Art and
Design and Illustration at the North Wales School of Art & Design.

He has painted in Spain, worked as a community artist and been an art teacher,
been marketing manager for a Japanese company and established his own business
supplying components to the major audio-logical manufacturers in Europe – as
well as illustrating a number of children's books.

Ian lives in Chester."