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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.

80 pages : colour illustrations. unmediated