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The Anzac Billy

The Anzac Billy

by Claire SaxbyMark Jackson and Heather Potter
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/04/2019

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A tender, moving story of a child waiting at home for the return of his father from serving in WWI.

During World War I, Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the front were sent Christmas care packages in a tin billy.

The Anzac Billy is the heartwarming story of a little boy packing a billy with all his father’s favourite things – added to by mum and grandma – even though he realises there is no way that the billy can actually go to a particular soldier.

  • Tender, moving and very evocative of a time when people just had to wait and hope. 
  • Perfectly researched, exquisitely rendered, no reader could fail to be moved by this story of Australian and New Zealand soldiers. 
  • Published in time for Anzac Day to capitalise on interest in the wartime history of Australia and New Zealand.
ISBN:
9781925126815
9781925126815
Category:
Picture books
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-04-2019
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
32
Dimensions (mm):
267x255mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson is an illustrator based in Melbourne. He has co-illustrated several books with his wife, Heather Potter, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions. His books, including The Snow Wombat (written by Susannah Chambers), Waves (written by Donna Rawlins and co-illustrated by Heather Potter), Platypus (written by Sue Whiting), Bilby Secrets (written by Edel Wignell) and Stuck! (written by Charlotte Calder) have been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.

Heather Potter

Heather Potter is an illustrator based in Melbourne. She has co-illustrated several books with her husband, Mark Jackson, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions. Their first Walker Book together was picture book Not Like Georgie by Scott Hatcher, 2008. Heather also illustrated the verse novel Pearl Verses the World in 2009 by Sally Murphy, which won the Children’s Book Category for the Indie Book of the Year Awards and Honour Book, Younger Readers category, Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, 2010. Her latest book with Walker is Nanna’s Button Tin, written by Dianne Wolfer.

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