The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace is award-winning writer Linda Granfield’s latest nonfiction picture book, published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Like Granfield’s other titles on Canadian military history, The Vimy Oaks uses the experiences of a single soldier to provide the framework for sharing the details of Vimy Ridge and the First World War. In April 1917, Signal Corps member Leslie Miller picked up a few acorns from the muddy battlefields at Vimy and mailed them to his family back home in Ontario. Granfield describes how the oak trees resulting from these acorns became the centre of a project to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, encouraging readers to reflect not only on the significance of Vimy Ridge, but also the journey to renewal and peace.
The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace
Written by Linda Granfield.
Published in 2017 by North Wind Press.
A beautiful story of a horrific time that educates and inspires. The teamwork is apparent from cover to cover: the layout, artwork, writing and research create a first class product. This book is geared toward children but all ages will appreciate its contents.
A beautiful story of a horrific time that educates and inspires. The teamwork is apparent from cover to cover: the layout, artwork, writing and research create a first class product. This book is geared toward children but all ages will appreciate its contents.
I loved all the information about world war 1 it was interesting about world wars
i really book mainly because i like storys about world war one. 888776654r5421q
What I love about this book is it was inspiring but sad at the same time and I loved that it actually had a story to tell and it also had so many facts to tell
I love how the book showed us what it was like in the war, and how those trees came to Ontario, from a foreign country.
I love how this author took such a horrific event and turned it into something beautiful.
The book shows that nature thrives in even the harshest times such as WW1 and someone took the time to document in what is the most violent and horrific time.
It was a good non-fiction book about turning something so terrible into something beautiful. I appreciate the description in the book. Seeing as it is non-fiction it’s hard to give any details other than what you are given in a textbook. So I definitely think the author took their time and made it an interesting book that you don’t get tired of right away.