By Taffy Thomas, Helen Watts (author)
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This is a collection that brings together folk tales, legends and ghost stories that grew up around the First World War. Fascinating, moving, sometimes scary, these are the stories told by soldiers and the people they left behind, on both sides of the conflict from the haunted U-boat to the ghosts of the trenches.
The author has also written a superb novel set during World War Two called One Day in Oradour which tells the story of a young boy whose village is wiped out by the Germans and only he survives.
As the Great War raged, and in its aftermath, people created hundreds of legends and stories round it, to speak of the sadness, the heroism, the deaths.
Helen Watts is a writer, editor and publisher. She has written a selection of short stories, non-fiction texts and poems for children and a wide range of teachers' resources. Helen is also the Schools Coordinator for the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. She is married with two children, Jack (14) and Georgia (11), and lives on a hill near Stratford upon Avon, where she enjoys walking her golden retriever, Dexter, and looks after a range of other family pets including Humbug the hamster and an expanding colony of stick insects. You can find out more about Helen on her Author Page.
Taffy Thomas has a repertoire of more than 300 stories, collected mainly from traditional oral sources, which he is happy to tell in almost any situation. He is now the most experienced English storyteller, having performed in many countries on four continents. In 2001 he was awarded the MBE for services to storytelling and charity. Taffy is a patron of the Society for Storytelling and is currently artistic director of Tales in Trust, the Northern Centre for Storytelling, based at The Storyteller's Garden in Grasmere. In 2013 he was named Outstanding Male Storyteller at the British Awards for Storytelling Excellence.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Ghost of the Trenches and Other Stories and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Ghost of the Trenches and Other Stories features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Horror & Ghost Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Short Stories, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Ghost of the Trenches and Other Stories was written by Taffy Thomas, Helen Watts and published by A & C Black (Childrens books) an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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