The Echoing Green
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The Echoing Green
Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman's distinctive illustrations make this an obvious companion to War Boy and War Game, even if the text is not his While staying with Great-Aunt Kitty, Kath feels keenly the contrast between her own family and the strained atmosphere of Aunt Kitty's cottage, It takes time for her to understand the longstanding bitterness, re-awakened by poppy day, that she senses beneath the superficial calm around her. An unusually constructed story where memories of the First World War and the army camp come and go, flickering in Chalkie White's conversation like a wind-blown candle. The present and the past have little importance amid the timeless suffering Kath sees around her.