Tail-end Charlie
by
Mick Manning
Illustrated by Brita Granstrom
In carefully detailed but lively illustrations, accompanied by notes written by hand or in typescript on postcards and official documents, we learn a great deal about food rationing, RAF training and life as a ‘Tail-end Charlie’ in a bomber.
To supplement the text, the endpapers, as well as every image, can be interrogated for additional visual information. Manning has a personal interest in his subject which shines through, and which will engage and inform Key Stage 2 and older readers.
The graphic format and factual content will particularly attract boys who are not drawn to wordier non-fiction.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
