Anzac Day Parade

This is a beautiful book. The layout and presentation is really good quality and the illustrations are beautiful and really bring the text alive.

In the story the boy’s questions prompts the war veteran to relive Anzac Day. The boy thinks that war is exciting, but the veteran is just filled with sadness. I really think this book puts across the sadness and complicated feelings that war veterans must experience, especially around Anzac Day, and this links really well with the child’s lack of understanding of war.

This book will certainly prompt many deep and detailed discussions about Anzac Day, war veterans and how they will feel sadness and guilt at coming home. The language makes it most suitable for older primary students and there will be great discussion unpacking such rich vocabulary.

Title: Anzac Day Parade

Author: Glenda Kane

Illustrator: Lisa Aleen

Publisher: Bateman Books

ISBN: 9781776890149

RRP: $24.99

Format: Hardback

Publication: first edition 2010 / This edition 2022

Ages: Junior fiction 8+

Reviewer: Angela Thompson, Library Lead Teacher, Remarkables Primary School, Queenstown

How are you recommending this book? Highly recommended

Opening sentence: There he stood on the sun-parched hill, a straggler from 18th Battalion.

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