Blitz

by Robert Westall, David Frankland (Illustrator)

First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Illustrated by David Frankland. Jacket is scuffed and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929.

His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat and the Guardian Award in 1990 for The Kingdom by the Sea. Robert Westall's books have been published in 21 different countries and in 18 different languages, including Braille.

From: http://www.robertwestall.com/

Reviews

[Catherine]

Four short stories with tales from the Blitz focussing on different locations and different demographics around the UK. More nuanced and oblique than many more modern World War 2 stories. Would be good to explore in class together.

[Sharon K. Mayhew]

I didn't realize Blitz was going to be three short stories.