Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, June 2015 Best-selling Shirley Hughes brings alive how it felt to be growing up in Liverpool during the Second World War. In a gripping and touching story which draws on her own memories of growing up at that time, Shirley Hughes sets a vivid scene of blackouts, rationing – especially of nylons which was a great hardship for the girls and all against the permanently lurking dread that something terrible is about to happen. But she also brings alive her much life was the same in terms of friendships and adventures as Joan and her best friend Doreen enjoy going to school, seeing off the class bully and going to the cinema. ~ Julia Eccleshare
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Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month for June 2015
It's a Groovy World, Alfredo by Sean Taylor
The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army by Michael Foreman
Whistling in the Dark by Shirley Hughes
The King's Shadow by Philip Womack
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