Remembrance Day Reads

Take time to remember on November 11th.

Updated November 15, 2024
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Letters from the Little Blue Room: An Intimate Portrait of World War I
Daisy Thomson Gigg
Paper Book
A 'lost' women's classic from World War I - discovered in the rare books room of the British Library, last seen in 1917! A Scottish woman sends funny, moving, compassionate and rousing letters to her younger brother, set to fight with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the trenches of WWI...
First World War picture book
Reid, Struan
Paper Book
Travel back in time with this fascinating information book, jam-packed with information, maps and photographs taken during the First World War.
Where poppies blow : the British soldier, nature, the Great War
Lewis-Stempel, John
Paper Book
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War 'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.' During the Great War, soldiers...
Girl takes drastic step! : how Molly Lamb Bobak became Canada's first official woman war artist
Dobson, Jillian
Paper Book
An inspiring picture book biography of the pioneering mid-century female visual artist and military officer who never gave up on her dream. It's 1942 and Molly is an artist through and through. With World War II raging overseas, she wants more than anything to capture with her art...
Tales of World War II : amazing true stories from the war that shook the world
Hearn, Hattie
Paper Book
It's the Second World War as you've never seen it before--discover the hidden stories of incredible human spirit during the world's darkest hour. Everyone knows what Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill were doing during World War II, but what...
Battle of Britain : Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour
Barris, Ted.
Paper Book
The gripping and heroic story of fighter pilots defending the skies over Britain from unprecedented Nazi attack For 113 terrifying days in 1940, Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe, threw everything it had at Great Britain in hopes of early victory in World War II. The task of...
War is over
Almond, David
Paper Book
Transcending its time and period, this moving and lyrical story, beautifully illustrated, explores the fear and hope of children in time of war. I am just a child. How can I be at war? It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches...
Captain Rosalie
Fombelle, Timothée de
Paper Book
Timothée de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault capture the heart-wrenching cost of war for one small girl in a delicately drawn, expertly told tale. While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little...
And no birds sang
Mowat, Farley
Paper Book
Too young to die : Canada's boy soldiers, sailors and airmen in the Second World War
Boileau, John
Paper Book
John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book Old Enough to Fight about boy soldiers in the First...
A most ungentlemanly way of war : the SOE and the Canadian connection
Horn, Bernd
Paper Book
An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization. During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and...
We will remember them : the story of Remembrance
Williams, S.
Paper Book
Produced in partnership with the Royal British Legion, this beautifully illustrated book explains to children why it's important to remember the service and sacrifice of so many men and women from every background, who ensured our freedoms and way of life. The sensitively...

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