Tony Palmer Tony Palmer i(A64080 works by)
Born: Established: 1941 ;
Gender: Male
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Tony Palmer grew up in Melbourne. He is a graphic designer as well as an author, and has worked as first senior designer at Penguin Australia, then executive designer at Penguin Random House.

His books tend to deal with Australian history.

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y separately published work icon The Soldier's Gift Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 6865893 2014 single work children's fiction children's war literature

'Emily knows her big brother, Tom, wants to leave Hillside Farm and go overseas to the war, but Emily doesn't want him to go.

'"Everyone else is going," said Tom to Emily when their uncle was gone. "That's not a good reason," said Emily.

'The Soldier's Gift is a moving story of one family's courage and endurance during the First World War, the terrible losses at Gallipoli and a time that changed Australia forever.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2016 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Picture Books
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