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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 What Was the War Like, Grandma? : Emmy Remembers World War II
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'Emmy remembers World War II.

'The night the Prime Minister announced on the radio that Australia was at war I was nine years old. Lola's mum cried. Although the fighting was far away our lives were changed forever. We had air raid drills at school and knitted socks to send to the soldiers. American soldiers arrived and the first hamburger shop opened. We held concerts for the War Effort and rolled bandages for the Red Cross. Lola's brother George went off to fight and nothing was the same for those of us who stayed at home.

''What Was the War Like Grandma?' is an extraordinary recreation of the war years from a child's point of view.' (Publication summary)

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    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Heinemann Australia , 1995 .
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      Extent: 28p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0855615265 (hbk.)
    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Walker Books Australia , 2013 .
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      Extent: 40p.
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      • Published June 1st 2013
      ISBN: 9781922179265
      Series: y separately published work icon Walker Classics Walker Books Australia (publisher), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2009-2014 8552527 2009 series - publisher picture book children's Each title contains a selection of commentaries by authors, illustrators and children's literature specialists.
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Fine Focus : Rachel Tonkin, a Life in Art and Illustration Tamsin Whaley , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 4-8) 'Art, to the artist, is inevitable, but the rest of us want to know: what are the whims, accidents and resolutions that shape a career? How does each artwork come to be just like that? What colour was the telegram delivery bike in South Melbourne during World War II? And what is that chimp doing over there? Like a good biography, Rachel Tonkin's retrospective steers us through her five decades in book illustration and writing, botanical art, and fine art and sculpture, and lets us make some connections' (Introduction)
What Was the War Like, Grandma? by Rachel Tonkin Anastasia Gonis , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , August 2013;
— Review of What Was the War Like, Grandma? : Emmy Remembers World War II Rachel Tonkin , 1995 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1996 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 40 no. 3 1996; (p. 3-11)
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 39 no. 3 1995; (p. 24)
— Review of What Was the War Like, Grandma? : Emmy Remembers World War II Rachel Tonkin , 1995 single work picture book
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 39 no. 3 1995; (p. 24)
— Review of What Was the War Like, Grandma? : Emmy Remembers World War II Rachel Tonkin , 1995 single work picture book
What Was the War Like, Grandma? by Rachel Tonkin Anastasia Gonis , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , August 2013;
— Review of What Was the War Like, Grandma? : Emmy Remembers World War II Rachel Tonkin , 1995 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1996 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 40 no. 3 1996; (p. 3-11)
Fine Focus : Rachel Tonkin, a Life in Art and Illustration Tamsin Whaley , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 4-8) 'Art, to the artist, is inevitable, but the rest of us want to know: what are the whims, accidents and resolutions that shape a career? How does each artwork come to be just like that? What colour was the telegram delivery bike in South Melbourne during World War II? And what is that chimp doing over there? Like a good biography, Rachel Tonkin's retrospective steers us through her five decades in book illustration and writing, botanical art, and fine art and sculpture, and lets us make some connections' (Introduction)
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