From The Garden To The Trenches

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 12:00pm

White Oaks Conference Centre
253 Taylor Road SS4
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
L0S 1J0

How did children’s books prepare young people for the Great War? How did WWI-era children’s culture reflect the experience of war? How do children’s writers today grapple with the Great War?

Join international speakers and children’s writers in conversation about the First World War in children’s literature and culture.

Children’s writers include Michael Morpurgo on his award-winning WWI drama War Horse, and Deborah Ellis - The Breadwinner Trilogy - on children, war and hope. Also featuring: Linda Granfield, Sarah Ellis, Kevin Major, John Wilson, Hugh Brewster, and Art Slade.

Speakers include Paul Stevens on how Winston Churchill's boyhood reading prepared him for the trenches of Flanders; Andrea Mackenzie on L.M. Montgomery's WWI novel Rilla of Ingleside; Margaret Higonnet on stories of heroic girls; and Hans Heino Ewers on WWI-era novels for traumatized German children.

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