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Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman.

66 pages :

colour illustrations.

Summary: This illustrated storybook is inspired by the history of the poppy as a symbol for Remembrance and helps explain the flower's significance to young people. In the story, a local village girl comes upon soldier poet John McCrae amongst the trenches of war-torn Belgium as he works on his poem "In Flanders Fields". Neither he nor the village girl who saves a discarded draft of it could know what a powerful impact that poem would have on generations to come, and how it would eventually inspire the Royal British Legion's successful annual Poppy Appeal to benefit veterans of conflict.