List of books by date of first publication

(There is a link through to books that have already been reviewed.) 

1915       From Billabong to London by Mary Grant Bruce
1917       The Belgian twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
1921       Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery 
1935       Biggles learns to fly by Captain W.E. Johns

1936       The story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

1940       Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn

   The singing tree written and illustrated by Kate Seredy

1946       The snow goose by Paul Gallico

1952       Twenty and ten by Claire Huchet Bishop

1961       The general by Janet Charters, illustrated by Michael Foreman

1963       I am David by Anne Holm

1967       The dolphin crossing by Jill Paton Walsh

1967-69 The Flambards trilogy by K.M.Peyton

1969       Charlotte sometimes by Penelope Farmer
               The duck in the gun by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Robyn Belton 

1972       Tank commander by Ronald Welch

1973       Carrie’s war by Nina Bawden

   Summer of my German soldier by Bette Greene

1974       When the siren wailed by Noel Streatfeild

1975       The machine gunners by Robert Westall

1980       Hiroshima no pika written and illustrated by Toshi Maruki
1984       The butter battle book by Dr Seuss
1989       Number the stars by Lois Lowry

1993       War game by Michael Foreman

1995       Sadako by Eleanor Coerr, illustrated by Ed Young
1996       The bantam and the soldier by Jennifer Beck

1997       Harry and the Anzac poppy by John Lockyer

   The little ships by Louise Borden

1998       So far from the sea by Eve Bunting

1999       Memorial by Gary Crew, illustrated by Shaun Tan

2000       When the guns fall silent by James Riordan

2002       In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen

   Lord of the nutcracker men by Iain Lawrence

   Remembrance by Theresa Breslin

2003       Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

   Erika’s story by Ruth Vander Zee

   Caesar the Anzac dog by Patricia Stroud

2004       The silver donkey by Sonya Hartnett

2005       Grandad's medals by Tracy Duncan, illustrated by Bruce Potter
2006       Soldier in the yellow socks by Janice Marriott, illustrated by Bruce Potter
               A present from the past by Jennifer Beck, illustrated by Lindy Fisher
2007       Archie’s war: my scrapbook of the First World War 1914-1918 by Marcia Williams

               Stefania's dancing slippers by Jennifer Beck, illustrated by Lindy Fisher
               The Mozart question by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman 
2008       One boy’s war by Lynn Huggins-Cooper

2009       Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting by Jim Murphy

   Lighthouse girl by Dianne Wolfer

   My mother’s eyes: the story of a boy soldier by Mark Wilson

2010       Ronnie’s war by Bernard Ashley

               Brave Bess and the Anzac horses by Susan Brocker
               Angel of Kokoda by Mark Wilson
               Anzac Day parade by Glenda Kane and Lisa Allen
2011       Bravo! by Philip Waechter and Moni Port
               Grumpy little King by Michel Streich
               Lest we forget by Feana Tu'akoi, illustrated by Elspeth Alix Batt
               True Brit: Beatrice 1940 by Rosemary Zibart, illustrated by George Lawrence
               Nice day for a war by Chris Slane and Matt Elliott
2012       Le Quesnoy: the story of the town New Zealand saved by Glyn Harper

   Hero on a bicycle by Shirley Hughes

   Lone Pine by Susie Brown and Margaret Warner

   The horses didn’t come home by Pamela Rushby

   Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

               Pandemic: Spanish flu 1918 by Sally Stone 
               A day to remember: the story of Anzac Day by Jackie French, ill. by Mark Wilson
               The red poppy by David Hill, illustrated by Fifi Colston 
2013       Evan’s Gallipoli by Kerry Greenwood

   When our Jack went to war by Sandy McKay

   The Great War by Joe Sacco

   Flora’s war by Pamela Rushby

   Light Horse Boy by Dianne Wolfer

   Rose under fire by Elizabeth Wein

   The amazing tale of Ali Pasha by Michael Foreman 

               Stay where you are and then leave by John Boyne
               Anzac biscuits by Phil Cummings, illustrated by Owen Swan
               Vietnam diary by Mark Wilson
               A winter's day in 1939 by Melinda Szymanik
2014       The Anzac puppy by Peter Millett

   1914: riding into war by Susan Brocker

   The red suitcase by Jill Harris

   What we did for love by Natasha Farrant

   No stars at the circus by Mary Finn

   Meet the Anzacs by Claire Saxby

   Valentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens

   My brother’s keeper by Tom and Tony Bradman
   Uprooted: a Canadian war story by Lynne Reid Banks

   The great war: stories inspired by objects from the First World War 1914-1918
   Ghost soldier by Theresa Breslin 
   An unexpected hero by L.P Hansen 
   Five children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
   The year it all ended by Kirsty Murray
   The Afghanistan pup by Mark Wilson
   War girls: a collection of First World war stories through the eyes of young women 

2015       The last Anzac by Gordon Winch, illustrated by Harriet Bailey 
               Roly the Anzac donkey by Glyn Harper, illustrated by Jenny Cooper
               Meet Weary Dunlop by Claire Saxby, illustrated by Jeremy Lord
               My Gallipoli by Ruth Starke, illustrated by Robert Hannaford
               The battle of Messines Road by J & W J Moloney 
               The war that saved my life by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley 
               The bakehouse by Joy Cowley
2016       Toitoi: Anzac special issue
               Dreaming the enemy by David Metzenthen